Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Faith as a Principle of Motivation and of Creation

Faith is often spoken up as a religious principle, and this almost exclusively. The meaning of the word faith however, takes it much further than merely religious in nature, and I will venture to say that there is no area of life that is not affected by faith as a motivating principle of action and of creation in our lives.

Jesus in the New Testament often reminded people that it was not by his own power, or that alone that they were healed, but by their faith were they healed, as in the following from Luke:

Luke 8: 43-48
43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
45 And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
46 And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
47 And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.

Often he said things that were hard to understand regarding faith, such as later in Luke when the Apostles asked for their faith to be increased:

Luke 17: 5-6
5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this Sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

As misunderstood as faith is, it becomes central to our understanding of creation as we endeavor to make pronounced changes in our lives, or to live the Law of Attraction. When people try to apply any principle of change half-heartedly, they are in essence demonstrating their lack of faith in the process. In "The Secret" Rhonda Byrne explained at some point it is necessary for us to clear things out to make way to receive that which is on its way.

When we ask for something, we need only ask once, and then we must begin the process of receiving, which is a process imbued with faith, if it is to produce the desired result. There is no room in the process for doubt, or it gets hung up at that point, and the test becomes a miserable failure, thereby cementing in the doubt of the unbeliever, and proving their point that nothing was going to happen.

Too many times I have witnessed exactly such lack of faith applied to a test of the Law to see if it would work, and each time, the Lord's quote comes back, "If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you."

To whomever among us that believes, all things are possible, and I have seen that if we have Faith, nothing wavering, we can see miracles. The "nothing wavering" part is what separates so many of us from the few who will see the miracle. It is possible, and we have only to seriously put his word to the test.

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