Faith. Having faith is hard work. The hard work is in not trying to have faith..."trying" is usually the ego's mind trip. The reasoning mind differs from the egoic mind in that the reasoning mind is a useful tool in a material world...our egoic mind serves the purpose of our own self.
Back to faith...to have an inner, walking around faith, requires trust. Trust in the God of our own understanding. For me, that is trust that God can and will intervene in my life in my behalf...whether I know it or not.
Here's a beginner's manual for building trust in the Lord...say that we inadvertently make an ego-dump in our own lap, then go scurrying in our head for a fix. But we don't go for any of our fixes, instead we assure ourself that God has already fixed it for our benefit. That's a good self-determined objective (and thank you, John Lewis).
Now comes the greening growth: We need be okay with the fact that we may never know the how, what, when, where of God's perfect fix. It is only our ego that will natter for The Outcome.
We get to act as if...no...we get to be. Not to act...we have become consciously aware that the other is to be loved by us, by self, just as we are being loved by Self.
Talk about a rough row to hoe...a.k.a., getting over ourself. Or, spiritual growth in depth. That's when we realize the truth in the promise: He goes before us to make the crooked places straight.
That is faith.
Thank you.
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