“When the son of man comes, will he find faith on the Earth?” – Luke 18:8
We live in a time, where there is a lot of cloud on this subject. Today in our generation, we are unclear or doubt or challenge or even don’t want to involve in this debate. This is not quite untrue, when we hear everyday something about an atheist talk around us.
On 3rd September 2010, I heard in BBC news on Stephen Hawking’s, a physicist, universe theory on universe’s origin and life without invoking God. There had been a lot of debates for and against this so far. My focus today is that this is the real times we live in now, where our faith is challenged and we would be lost, if we are unsure and unaware of this basic context.
We know from scriptures, faith is a gift of the Holy Spirit (1Corinthians 12:9), on which, rest of all the Holy Spirit’s gifts make sense. If one has faith, he can do marvellous things than what Jesus did (John 14:12). In other words nothing is impossible without faith. Hence it is important to learn and practise faith.
This brings to question, what is faith? The dictionary explains, “Faith is the confident belief or trust in the truth or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.” Paul in his letter to Hebrews 11:1 quotes, “Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” We are quite clear by this, that faith is a quality, which you realize it is there, yet you don’t see it. It is phenomenal, isn’t it? How true is it?
I went to check this statement and asked my junior doctor, how he perceived faith? He said, “It is taking the head of the thinking,” which sounded good, but not quite perfect to me. I went on to operate on a patient’s hand under local anaesthetic and at the end of the procedure asked her to move her fingers, which she did without a hesitation. I further asked her, as to she knew she was moving her fingers, yet not seeing it and if she still had 5 fingers, for which, she counted her fingers one by one and replied yes. Perfect!, that is faith, I yelled! The nurse said perfect teaching!!
Of course, I haven’t chopped her fingers away! Yes, she trusted me that I will do a good job and hoped it will be the case and when, she could realize she had those fingers safe without seeing it, but trusting it, hoping it and finally feeling it, she was not disappointed, was she?
Yes my friends, faith is a quality of feeling, which you believe, hope and realize it is there to be cherished. When you board an aircraft, you believe the aircraft is checked for safety, staff’s trained and hope you will not have any accidents, which you realise is true only when you reach your destination. Otherwise no one would ever travel, will they? On the contrary you will panic to travel, which is not uncommon when you meet an accident, setting an enquiry and the purpose is it to put things right to move on. Amazing isn’t it?
So faith is an unseen subject, which is there to be seen, yet not seen, but it is there surely. Keeping our trust and hope in the Lord, whom you might not have seen, but have heard seen by many from Adam, Eve, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Elijah, the Apostles and their generations unto me, you trust, hope and believe in faith, for that to happen to you.
“Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” – John 20:29
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