Faith

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable and receives the impossible - Corrie ten Boom

The strange thing about faith that I discovered is that it is derived from the grace of God and not so much by our own devices.

It can be lost and regained.

There was a time when I lost my faith.

Being a Lawyer, by nature I'm drawn to logic based on evidence and hard facts.

Based on logic and proven fact, I came to the conclusion that most of what is in the Bible is hearsay, created after the event and consequently, inherently unreliable

The day I made that conclusion ( January 2005) ,my life changed completely. There was an unexplainable void an emptiness, a blank.

The next day,things happened that completely changed my perfect life up to then for the worse.

Events beyond my control dictated that I would lose everything that mattered to me, a perfect disaster, a life in shambles, a cul de sac of horror.

I felt a fear that I had never felt before.

It took a while, lots of prayer by loved ones before I started believing again. Eventually the miracle happened the unbelievable an incident, where irrefutable divine intervention saved the day.

With a thankful heart I returned to the Lord.

I then realised....( about my conclusion of the Bible )

That God is almighty, If he wanted to, he could talk to me through a cookbook.So it really was irrelevant whether the Bible is factually corrector not, If God wanted to speak to me through it he was going to anyway.

What is important is that God has chosen this book, the Bible, to speak to us regardless of its perceived lack of evidential factual reliability.It is up to us to chose to believe.

The same can be said of God.That is faith.

Just look around us, one can't fail to notice the hand of God, his grace, his goodness.

People say there is no God for there is hunger war and cruelty.

The facts speak for themselves. The earth was created perfect and self sustainable to provide every human need.

Hunger? Poverty? The USA and Europe just set out stimulus packages in excess of 5 trillion USD. Divide that sum with the approximately 5 billion human beings on earth, you eradicate poverty.Besides, 90% of famine is the result of war self inflicted by humans.

Drought, pestilence, natural disasters? try climate change due to pollution.

sickness? 99.99 % of all illnesses are attributable to the environment that we have polluted and what we have physically consumed directly or indirectly through a genetic pass through.

cruelty? that's entirely down to us, not God.

The solution to all of the above is very simple.

"Love thy neighbour as thyself".

If every body did that, we would have no hunger because everyone would share,

There would be no war as we would settle our differences by understanding each other, etc.

I rest my case my Lord

Thus the simple commandment of God is the solution of all problems premised first on loving God with all our heart mind and soul.

The solution to your problem? ..... an impossible? unbelievable? invisible.....

Have faith.you have nothing to lose.

Romans 10 ;17 "So then faith cometh by hearing,and hearing by the Word of GOD"

1st Corinthians 2:9 "your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the POWER OF GOD!"

Galatians 5.6 "...Faith ...worketh by LOVE "

Mathew 17:20"...If you have faith the size of a mustard seed...NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE TO YOU"



Amen, all glory and honour be to God.