Thinking about faith. Not necessarily the religious noun, having a faith, but the action related concept of faith. You see, if you say something like, Oh, I have faith, then you have basically taken all the passion out of the concept. There are millions of people that claim faith, that say they believe but only a few that take action. When you consider faith a verb, meaning you say that I will exercise faith or that you will apply faith toward something you are implying action. Faith is action. It separates the believer from the disciple. When you have faith you do, when you believe, you well, just believe.
Separating out the religious connotation for a moment, faith is really a concept. A powerful concept. This can be applied to every aspect of life and not just a “belief” in deity. When you have faith, you hope that something will be true. For example, lets say that you need a really good job. You can hope that you can get a good job. Well, you can sit around and hope all day long and nothing will happen. Nobody is going to wake up one day and say, Oh! I need to call this person and give them a job. That just does not happen. So hope is not enough. However, if you have enough hope that you can and you could get a good job if you applied yourself toward that goal enough. So it is at that precise moment of thinking that you enter in the faith zone, the action zone. That is when your hope becomes real, because now you are applying legitimate action.
The concept then becomes, if I apply enough faith, then I will get that good job. So your hope transforms to a belief, and even something more. It then transforms into a commitment, even a contract. If I apply this amount of faith, action, will, then I will get that job. This is real faith. It is the absolute belief and determination when acting towards a given path that you will get the desired result.
This is the first principle of Faith. Now there is more to it than that. Faith can become a binding commitment, faith can grow into something else, something with real power and above all when you have faith in something that is true, something that has real legitimate power – well, amazing transformative things happen.
Anyway, if you want something to happen, hope for something to happen then the very first thing to ask yourself is, “how is my faith.”
Guy Reams
