is it really so dad?
I think I am starting to realize that there is a fine line between being out of your mind and having faith.
posted by laura at 12:02 AM
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
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Can it be that where the mind leaves off, the heart begins, and that is where faith lives?
Blessed Pascha, my sister!
Yeah, I think using both brains and heart is allowed. I guess it all comes down to knowing God and who He is (and His Word!) to discern which is faith and which is folly.
You cannot use logic and faith at the same time. God gave them both for different matters.
Logic, when something needs to be done the "earth" way. Like discerning between something that is worth it or not.
Faith, when you just want to run over the first. Faith goes beyond logic and the more you try to understand it you find out the LOGIC thing to do is just leave it. :)
Then you automaticaly find out what faith is all about: "Just leaving it".
Even though something is inexplicably stupid, there are times when you think it's worth a try. Faith is there. When you know the chances are low and you're doing the "wrong" thing. Faith is there. Faith is the un-logic side of the present. It's the challenge and the risk, but also the spice of life.
The only thing I don't know how to describe is the FACT, not FAITH, that there is a ONE TRUE GOD. Of course, technically we're speaking of something you cannot see, therefore I believe (faith) God exists. On the other hand, I can't say I believe as I would say by that I assume He Does. I say I know as that is more reliable. A fact.
When you do something by faith, you just leave it to someone bigger than you. Like walking on water, you don't concentrate on your own as you know you can't do it. You just leave it KNOWING there is someone else who will do the job.
That was my big question as a child: "What is faith?". No one could answer that, but growing up I found the formula and that is to leave it to someone else.
"God help me!" - don't believe He Will, but KNOW He Will.
"God provide!" - again, same thing.
Believing is great, if you know how to do it. If not just go for the logic and reliable thing. Know.
God will always answer if we believe in Him, but knowing and being sure about it is always better.
Complexity at its best. Hope you got it. ;)
Good night,
David
The funny part, I think, is that what I feel is faith (or I know is faith, or what simply IS faith) is something, that for someone else might seem like full-time madness.
Deciding things in unlogical ways. Saying: I feel God speaks to my heart.
Putting unlogical things first.
Sort of... living by the heart, 'cause heart is the compass that we have for orienteering towards God, I think.
And that IS madness for a lot of people. Completely unlogical: for them it seems unreasonable to live by your heart. It might seem to them that I lack some responsability or that I lack clear sense - "missing" some "good opportunities" or so... Just because I think some other things than profession or work should come first in life.
It's a little tricky to decide to live in such a madness, I think - we have such a burden in this world, we are SUPPOSED to do things in a certain way, to be responsable in a certain way, to be effective, work hard, gain status, gain money, build a decent life with certain decent things (career, a house, a Volvo etc.). And fighting that back is a little... tricky.
And at the same time it is amazing.
Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and be not held again in a yoke of bondage. // Gal. 5:1
So this is freedom? Really? Being transformed... Or wanting to be transformed to be brave enough to follow the heart instead of this twisted mind and twisted logic that we have. To follow God. And we're free to do it.
Sweet. (!)
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