Faith… That’s a word we hear a lot. Almost every religion talks about aspects of faith, to have it and to use it in your life daily. Even if you are not religious, even if you are an atheist and could care less about religion and God, you would still understand the concept of faith and what it means just by association.
When we hear this word, it immediately begins to evoke a strong emotion inside of us. When you hear somebody utter the words, “well, you just have to Have Faith”, but what exactly is faith? And how can you have it?
So how can this word based out of religious roots come to impact and mean so much to so many different people who share in different beliefs or lack of them? It doesn’t matter who you are, you understand that when someone tells you to have faith that they are asking you to believe in something – but believe in what?
They are asking you to believe or to know that which you are putting your faith in will eventually work out for you or come to be. But wait a second, when you hear the word faith, it doesn’t make you feel that way initially. When people hear the F word, they automatically assume that they must have a dead-end belief in what they what. It’s almost like if somebody tells you to have faith in something that they are saying, “keep believing in what you want and it might happen”. If I am being a bit ambivalent here, what I am trying to imply is that when we hear the word faith it’s almost like we start to assume that the word isn’t solid or concrete – we start to assume that having faith in something means that we won’t end up having it or having it come to be in the end.
Why then, did this word evolve into such a term that shifted from meaning having absolute belief in something to only thinking of what you want a whimsical possibility? That is quite an interesting thing, wouldn’t you agree?
I remember when I was growing up and people told me to have faith in things, even in religion classes, they would always attach the word faith to God and imply that he would always make sure everything worked out OK. Then as you grow up and get older, you will start to hear people to tell you to have faith as if it’s some outside force that dictates your success or failure – people start to use the word faith as if whatever you want is an external or force outside of you that is either going to magically work or not work for you. This is an unsettling notion, I don’t take kindly to things that suggest to me that anything I want is something that can be left up to chance. I don’t like and am not comfortable with hearing that if I put my faith into something, that some random order of events is either going to give or not give what I asked backed to me, no way, no how.
Faith then, becomes even more interesting when we look at it in this deep context. We need to ask ourselves the golden question about faith, “where does faith come from and who decides what happens?”. It’s all too easy to chalk it up to God and say well, God always knows so he determines it – he gives it to us. I am a believer in God, but I am not a believer that God is a figure of judgment, I believe him to be a figure of love, therefore, it is not within God’s judgment to either grant us something or take it away – that power is entirely reserved for our own use and application.
Then the answer to the question is that we create and bring things into our own reality based on our own degree of faith. We need to again come back to the primary rule of life and existence – we are the masters of our own universe. We create everything and we bring everything to us by way of our own thoughts and actions, there is no external force that has the power to act on our own reality and our own universe and do as they please unless we let them. God has nothing to do with this – we are God and we create through him, he is nothing but love and cannot interject in our own decisions; this is possible out of his pure and brilliant love for us. God loves us so much that he will stand beside us and watch us stumble trying to walk until we eventually learn to run. He does not directly intervene in our lives, but instead, he did give us something that we can operate within to create our own realities, the universe. He is the ultimate nurturer because he has given us all of the tools we need to be the best person we can be in life, we just need to simply remember them and accept them – until we can do this, then there is nothing he can do. God cannot force his love on anybody or anything, the person must first accept this love as part of their universe and as a part of their reality before God will begin to have any impact on that person’s life. The thing about that is that people will still treat God as external to them and their lives, so that is all they will ever come to know him by.
The permissions you set for anything in life, be it for God or your spouse and even your family is all of the power you are letting them operate in. If you treat God as an all-powerful being but say to yourself that he is beyond you and controls everything you can’t see, then you are effectively giving your power away to external forces to control your life for you. I can’t even imagine a life like this, it would be full of chaos and disharmony run by nothing but your own fear. This is the cardinal rule: things will happen to you as you want them too, until you can realize that nothing can effect you unless you have given it the power to, then your life will be run in seemingly disarray.
If you want the most benefit to come out of your life, then you need to see the value in accepting things and seeing them how they really are. Getting back to the topic of faith, it is wise to say that a man is the master crafter of his own faith as well as collecting the fruits of that belief and the labor. Every single wise person and teacher as far back as Socrates agreed on one point among their many contrasting ones: man is the master of their own universe, you sow only what you reap and you can only become that which you believe in and that which you make your own.
Looking back at the model of faith we’ve made now, we can see something funny come out of all of this. All along, we have been told to put our dreams and what we want to faith, but all along, faith was never something external to us, faith is something that we are in control of. We have been putting our dreams to chance all along, we can only begin to sow the benefits of our dreams when we realize that the act of both having faith and having faith deliver to us what we want is entirely in our own domain; that is to say, the faith we put into things is exactly like putting faith into ourself, in fact, it is just that. When we have faith in something, it should never be into an external force of chance but rather we need to believe that what we are having faith in will come to be because we are fully realized that it is entirely up to us to create what we want in life.
There is no need in life for predicting the future because this process is straight forward:
1. Faith is Belief, it is Knowing.
2. We must accept our own selves as the only entity in all of creation that has the power to give us that which we want. God has provided THE WAY by which this can happen, and the way is the all abundant universe. The universe will respond with our initial faith by aligning us with what we want – the more we know we are going to have what we want, the easier it is to get it.
3. There is no guesswork, if you already have faith, if you already know and believe that you are going to be something, then there is no need to predict the future. You already know what the outcome is going to be because only you have the power to decide what that outcome will be. All too many times people fail because they can’t see the elegance and beauty in the process. People think external forces will cause them to fail, so they will attract by their own thoughts a perpetual stream of seemingly random (although they are not random – they were CREATED by them) events that will bombard them and beat them down until it is impossible to succeed, at which point they give up. No one decides to give up except you, and no one can decide to make anything work except you. You are going to attract whatever you are thinking in your mind always.
Learning to master this process will move your life’s potential into the infinite. Begin to feel right now exactly what it is like to be limitless, to know the simple formula that will make life the greatest experience you can ever come to know.
Your faith is your knowing that you can have anything it is your thinking. This process is infallible and it’s not something you can deny, it continues to work whether you choose to accept it or refute and deny it’s existence. The universe is the ultimate way in which your thoughts become the reality you see in front of your eyes. Nothing is left to chance, nothing is random. Everything is ruled and dictated by the supreme love that God has for everything in creation; God is just a force that has come to be all things, and because he is all things, he cannot judge all things. A judgmental God would be dangerous and we would surely see the results of his judgments. When you judge something, it means you must become partial to a side and this is against God’s nature. He cannot be all things if he is only partial to one side, it would cancel a lot of things out, that’s just a thought for you to have.
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Yes yes. God cannot truly help us until we understand that he is not “all around us” but inside and a part of us. He is not the physical air we breathe, but can transport his love through it if we want it and are accepting.
On that next point (we run our own lives and events happen as we want them to)…
The lack of this ideal is a top reason members of this universe have “shit happen to them.” If you are thinking of the worst and letting those thoughts infect you, then it will happen and any negative scenarios you play out in your head will most likely come true. I often think when someone says, “I knew that was going to happen” it is not because they had good premonition of the event, but rather believed so much that it would happen a certain way — and so it does. That person could then go on to validate themselves for correctly guessing a chain of events when in actuality they made those events happen. I have done this myself many times and it is the easiest way to psych yourself out.
Think you are not the best in any kind of lineup and you won’t be. These simple facts are what define FAITH.