What Does It Mean to Have Faith?

Sometimes it scares me to think that my whole life and the decisions I make every day are based off of the words of one man who lived thousands of years ago.

The Christian faith is entirely based on believing this one man is good to his word, but I do not think this is such a stretch to believe in.

Every day we take people at their word, until they break it.

Some people are good to their word and, therefore, trustworthy.

Others have proven the opposite, and it takes a long time to regain the faith we had in them from the start.

Sometimes regained faith in someone never happens.

The fact remains, however, that we always put our faith in several different people every day, and if they fail us, than we no longer trust them.

The difference between me and my non-Christian friends is that I continue to choose every day to believe this one man's words.

Recently, I have decided to read all the words recorded by this one man alone.

I have not begun, to be honest, but I am very interested to see exactly all that this man said and chose to leave unsaid.

I do know he often went against the religious norm of his time and that his example still challenges all who believe in him to this day.

Every day we live by faith, whether we think we are or not; whether we believe in God or not.

We can count on the sun rising. We believe in wind, though we cannot see it, because we can feel it and see evidence of it among the trees. We also know the moon and the stars will be in the night sky, as they always have been. Et cetera.

If we think about the Christian faith, it really does not require much of us. It requires faith, of course, but that should not be too hard for us since we already put faith in a lot of different things, and people, every day.

Jesus Christ ascended into heaven after raising Himself from the dead a couple thousand years ago (This I have taken on faith.), but He has yet to accomplish all He said before He left this Earth.

While He was here, on Earth, He proved Himself trustworthy. Therefore, I have personally chosen to believe He will continue to be good to His word.

All that is really expected of every one is to continue to trust that He will be good to all He said before He left this Earth.

Jesus Christ pushed against the religious norm of His time, therefore, I too will push against the religious norm of my time, as long as it clashes with anything that He said.

We all choose to follow something, or someone, and I have chosen to put my faith in the man Jesus Christ.

I believe you should too.