Faith is an ancient word...So the word faith has been used over and over since man has existed and believed in God in the Ancient Days...And the One that people looked up and prayed to was called Ancient of Days (Daniel 7:9)...Just because words and things are old and ancient does not make them unbelievable or any lesser to believe that they exist...Old and ancient things do exist and many are believable...And many things of the past are not inferior to the things of modern times...We need to learn from our past and from all of our ancestors, including our oldest ancestors...Abraham's talks, prayers, and covenant with God is one of the first relationships with man and God, after our Fall from Grace in Eden...Abraham and his wife Sarah had faith in God, and that God would deliver them a child in their old age...But faith goes back even further than Abraham and Sarah...In the beginning, God created man and woman...The first man was Adam and the first woman was Eve and they were with God in the Garden of Eden...God wanted them to have faith in Him and do His Will...God is Spirit, so faith is with His Spirit and the first man and woman...As time went along, Adam and Even were disobedient to God's Will and they ate the forbidden fruit and fell from grace and had to leave Eden...
Faith is why we believe in God...Faith is how we believe in God...Faith can be small and faith can grow...And faith is how we know that God does exist...
Faith is often a process...Sometimes faith is a long process...But for some faith can be found quickly...And faith is not a static idea or belief...Faith is a practice, that is done regularly...And regardless of how one gains their faith, faith is a journey and a relationship with a Father and His Son, whom we know as God and Jesus...
Faith is not blind...Faith is based on evidence and our personal experiences, and our personal thoughts about God and Jesus...Jesus tells us to love God with our minds...So if we use our minds to bring us to faith in God, then we must use reason and logic to seek and find Him...But we can also find God with our hearts, our souls, and our bodies...This is because each of us are more than just thought, we are an entire body with a heart and soul and mind...We can start by reading and searching for a belief in God with the evidence laid out in the four gospels, then we can read the rest of the New Testament, and then the Old Testament...Then your faith becomes a response from what you have read and believed in the Bible...Faith may start out small then mature and grow...Faith can grow and faith can mature...Reading the Bible helps faith grow and mature...
Faith maybe the most important thing in our lives...Faith should be the most important thing in our lives, as it was for Jesus...So faith is a current word...Faith is not something outdated...Faith is certainly one of the top three virtues, alongside love and hope...And I think faith means something a little bit different to each one of us...That maybe true because each of us are different from one another...Faith is about a relationship with God and Jesus, so faith is personal to us...Since Jesus came to earth as a Man, faith became Personal...Jesus was a Person when He walked the earth...Therefore, our faith is a very personal thing with Him and our Father...And because it is an important part of our lives, I think each of us should ask, "How do I define faith?"...And "How important do I consider my daily faith?"...And "How often do I practice and use my faith?"...
Faith is a dependence on God...Faith is a trust in God...Faith is a sacred word then, as we relate it to God...For without God, can there be faith?...Faith is not my way, but God's Way...Faith is very personal...Because God knows each one of our thoughts...Faith is something that goes beyond our reason, yet seems to be a part of our reasoning process of how we see things and view Truth and the truths in our lives...Faith is not a static action...Faith is a robust, ongoing process...And if you believe that faith is a robust ongoing process, then there will be days of strong faith, and days of not so strong faith...Faith is naturally a Spiritual thing, but man is a Spiritual creature...And faith helps us to explain life, and the purpose of life...
Faith is for the soul...Faith nourishes the soul...Without faith and our faith feeding our souls, we might be soul-less...Or at least we might have a weak soul, if we have no faith...
Faith believes in reason and logic and Truth, but faith also believes in the impossible...That is because faith believes in miracles...God and Jesus have done many miracles that we can read about in the Bible...They also do miracles in lives...And we read about them in the Bible and the current events...We may have even had a miracle in our lives...I believe this is why we sometimes pray for the impossible and the improbable...This is one of the reasons we keep praying...
Most people like and think of their own independence, as an important part of their lives...So faith can be hard and be hard work...In this sense it is sometimes easier to avoid and resist God, than to do His will, so we can go about and keep doing our own will and be independent of Him...When we are constantly doing our own will, then we can lose the sense of God and where He is at in our lives...We get lost in our will and our daily lives, doing our own thing, and just in what we are doing -and often He seems to get left out of our lives, and seems gone or forgotten in our minds...We get busy with earthly things...But we must remember faith is not a part-time word, and a part-time passing...Faith is a belief that is to stay with us, when we believe in God...But our Father in Heaven is patient with us...
Faith is not doubt, but faith works its way through doubts and although our faith may drop in its strength (so to speak) our faith can and hopefully remains, when doubts arise...So faith is not here today, gone tomorrow, then back again the next day, and then gone the next...Faith is a living faith, a faith that we try to live by...Yet, man with his sins, find it difficult to carry out his faith without sinning at times...
And it needs to be said that faith like exercise must be practiced on a regular basis...So one's faith must be trained and used and practiced...A static faith is a faith that can drift away from you...C. S. Lewis said this on faith, “Now Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods...For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes. I know that by experience...Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable...This rebellion of your moods against your real self is going to come anyway...That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods "where they get off," you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist, but just a creature dithering to and fro, with its beliefs really dependent on the weather and the state of its digestion...Consequently one must train the habit of Faith...The first step is to recognize the fact that your moods change...The next is to make sure that, if you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day...That is why daily prayers and religious readings and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life...We have to be continually reminded of what we believe...Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind...It must be fed...And as a matter of fact, if you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have been reasoned out of it by honest argument?...Do not most people simply drift away?"...
So faith is to be exercised and used and practiced...Jesus taught about this practicing faith in Luke's Gospel...Jesus said, "I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and puts them into practice...He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock...When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built...But the one who hears My words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation...The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete."...We need to practice Jesus' teachings and His Words and the Word of God...
St. Paul tells us that faith comes from hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17)...Faith starts with hearing...Faith begins with hearing the word of God...So we need the Word of God for our faith...And the Bible gives us the word of God...And after reading the Word of God and studying it, then it takes us to use reason either to believe in God or not believe in Him...And not only can we believe by reading the Bible, we can believe in God by learning from other people, why they believe in Him...Some people after they read the Bible and/or talk to other believers find several reasons to believe in God, while others struggle to find only a few, in any to believe in Him...But reasoning is used in finding faith and having faith...
Faith is our connection to God...And He is moved by our faith in Him...Our faith helps us connect with God...And we do want this connection...We want faith, and to have faith...There is a reason for our wanting faith, we want Someone who is out there...We want Someone who gives life purpose...Mankind has a longing for God...This longing has been around since the ancient days...This longing within us is explained in the Bible...God put within us, a Holy Spirit...That longing comes from a God with us and a Son named Immanuel (Matthew 1:23)...God with us is the Holy Spirit, that Jesus teaches about...This longing for a Greater Good is a feeling, and for many of us, if not most of us -most of the time, this feeling is unexplainable...When trying to explain this longing or feeling for God, or an Absolute Being, or our Creator, it is confusing, and it is hard to explain, and it is also mysterious...And at times, if not most of the time it seems very difficult to understand why we are searching for Something or Someone better...We seem to ask ourselves is that all there is, and have the question of "why" in our mind, and "what is my purpose."...God made us this way, and it seems, He wants us to have some uncertainty, and some doubts, about this feeling or longing we have for Him...So He wants us to have this longing, which we do have for Him, but at the same time have these unexplainable, and confusing thoughts about what and who He might be and be like...So He wants us to seek Him...These different feelings and thoughts are a part of our faith...These feelings of the unexplained, confusion, doubt, and our purpose in life is a part of faith...And when we are so busy in life and in our days, this longing seems almost non-existent, it recedes, and seems almost to go away...But that is all in how He created us...He gives us free choice and a free will to seek Him...If we want to keep busy and study, work, or play with different things He allows that...I believe in the statement "God allows."...He allows many things to happen...This is because we have free choice and also because we fell from grace and out of the Garden when we first sinned...
The author of Hebrews talks about faith in chapter eleven, and we see it includes hope in the things that we cannot see... And without our faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who wants to seek Him and come to Him, has to believe that He exists...He rewards those who earnestly seek Him...Jesus made it clear in His Parable about the mustard seed, it is not about the size of our faith that is important...It is more important, we believe and to have faith (at least a little faith) in God that makes greatness and miracles happen...The strength of our faith, no matter what the size, if we believe in the Father and His Son -is what's important...A little faith can go a long way...Even a small mustard seed sized faith, is maybe enough faith to keep our faith alive each day as Jesus taught...And when the friends of a paralyzed one carries their friend to Jesus to be healed, we see faith...And Jesus is moved by even the faith of those carrying the one who cannot walk...Because when He saw their faith, He said to the man, “Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.”...He saw not only the faith of the one who needed help, but the faith of those helping him...So, He saw the faith of those carrying and one being carried and was moved...
Could faith be explained just very simply and be simple?...Could faith be as simple as (and defined as) the belief in God and His Son and the optimistic belief that they await us in heaven?...Can people just read the Bible or go to church and then believe in God and His Son...Simply put, do some people just have faith and almost within a short period of time, believe in God and Jesus?...I think there are some people like this...
So, for me, faith is not easy...God has made faith (I think), in such a way, that it is not an easy thing for everyone...It is very much a mystery and He wants us to seek Him and to seek faith in Him and Son...To have faith, we must learn to pray...God could make faith easier by prayer...Faith is not about getting everything we want or pray for...But if we did, faith would, I think, become easier...I wonder if we would get each prayer answered as we want it, would we always be in prayer...I do think, if each of us got everything we prayed for, we would undoubtedly pray more each day...I bet many would start praying first thing in the mornings...
In writing about faith, it can raise as many questions as it answers...Therefore, I do not think one cannot quite define and explain faith, in a very precise way...Everyone does not have their one set definition for their personal faith...Faith is a belief in something that we can't explain...Faith believes in miracles...Faith has to believe in miracles, because God and Jesus has done many miracles in the Bible...
So faith is a hard subject to try to write about and explain, since we can't completely explain it, personally to each and everyone...And God is so complex, we cannot understand Him...So if one wants to understand all the things about God, then faith cannot happen...He is "too" infinite and eternal...But faith is not the same as understanding...And even though faith is confusing, we do now some things about faith and it has been around since the ancient days -the beginning of man...So let us think of these mysterious, and hard to explain things about faith, and include that idea (of the mystery surrounding faith) in our thoughts and how we view and see our own faith...Let us think that sometimes (if not most of the time) faith contains mystery...One must look at these things, as being a part of one's faith...When one thinks of their own personal faith, it is good, they realize that faith is not easy...It maybe good to include mystery in your own personal faith definition, because God is mysterious...He often seems to hide from us...He is, therefore, mysterious and One who hides...But for us to have faith, He first must exist...Then He must be a God, who also must be able to be found, in someway and somehow (for us to have faith)...For us to be able to find Him and have faith, we must seek Him...Both the process of seeking and faith are action words...We must take action (first to seek Him and then) to have faith...
Faith, sometimes is described, as the ability we get from God to act on His revealed Word and the mystic feeling and feelings we get from our LORD, through the Holy Spirit...Faith is an action, this act on His revealed word...Some call this act of faith, a leap of faith...Some call it blind faith...But faith does His will...Therefore, faith is not static but causes one to learn more of God and His Son and can grow...Faith always has its origin in God...Faith, therefore, is always seeking God, and trying to get closer to the One who created us...So faith is much more than just believing that He exists...
Faith includes many things...So faith has included in it, things we do not understand and cannot explain...This is the mystery part...But faith is also and includes, the positive, confident belief, trust, or conviction in the truth or trustworthiness of a person, concept or thing...Faith is one of the three great virtues (faith, hope, and love) as is written by St. Paul to the Corinthians...The author of Hebrews (who some say is St. Paul) tells us that faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see (Hebrews 11:1)...Faith and hope, then are linked and but neither can be seen...St. Paul also connects love to faith and hope (1 Corinthians 13)...Faith, hope, and love are so important in our lives...None of these three great virtues faith, hope, or love can be seen...Just because things cannot be seen does not make them unbelievable and lies...I have never seen a radio wave in the sky, but I know they exist, as I listen to the radio...I have never have seen my voice go over a copper or fiber optic line, but I know it happens as I talk on the phone...I have never seen an atom, or my DNA, but I believe that these things exists...I have never seen faith, hope, love, but I know they exist...I have never seen a thought, but I know I think...These are mysteries to me, but I know these things happen and exist...
Creation offers proof of a powerful designer, even though we did not see the universe created...By faith we know God created the universe from His command, even though we were not there to see it (Hebrews 11:3)...St. Paul said it something like this, for since God created the universe, with it has great complexity and divine design, the original creation was not seen by man...God fine tuned our earth, so man could live on it and survive...But God's invisible qualities- His eternal power and divine nature- have been clearly seen, so that we are without excuse not to have faith (Romans 1:20)...St. Paul teaches us, we should be able to find God and the Truth by looking at the natural world...St. Paul's faith helped him to understand these unexplainable things...
Faith is this belief, trust or conviction in hope, and in a future...Faith is a belief in things not seen...Faith believes in miracles...Faith is a hope for our eternal future and our life after death...Faith gives us hope, that after we have died, we will live with our Father and His Son...Abraham, our first patriarch had this conviction of hope and this eternal future...Against all hope, Abraham in his hope believed and became the father of many nations, just as God had told him (Romans 4:18)...Only after Abraham would die would he become this father of many, many nations...Abraham's faith in God must have included a thought about seeing and rejoicing with a Messiah, and he must have felt glad about that thought...For Abraham to be the father of many nations, he would be long dead, before this would happen...Abraham had to have faith and belief in the God to be able see himself as this "father of many nations" and to believe that God's covenant would be fulfilled...Abraham was long before the Law of Moses and many, many years before Jesus...But Jesus said Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing My day; he saw it and was glad (John 8:56)...Abraham had this faith in the Resurrection, to see the covenant of God come to fruition...Jesus said I AM the Resurrection and the Life (John 11:25-26)...Abraham somehow had the faith in the Resurrection...Abraham's faith helped him to somehow better understand these unexplainable things...How could Abraham rejoice in the day of Jesus unless he believed in God, and the Son of God?...
When we make decisions in life, we base them on facts, and the truth of those facts...How else would and could you make a decision?...There will come a time in our lives, when we will be ask to make this decision, "It's time to place all you know of your small, mustard seed-sized faith in Me and My promise to you."...Anytime we make any decisions, they require knowing the truth as best we can at that time...Why else would we make that decision?...Understanding is important, but there are many things we can't understand and won't understand...As said earlier about the complex process of a thought, is hard to understand...I do not know how the mind takes an idea and makes it a thought, but it does...I don't understand how my thoughts, make it to my voice and speech, but I know and trust that it does happen...It is hard to understand faith, hope, and love...But we know that they exist...So our limited understanding does not necessarily make something not true...There is a transition from faith to trust, and that trust involves the Truth...
Jesus is the Truth (John 14:6)...Jesus teaches us the eternities...Faith, hope, and love are important to Him...They are important to me...How sad a life it would be, to be without faith, or hope, or love...Jesus understands these things of faith, hope, and love...He understands all things...No man has ever had as much faith as Jesus has...His disciples right before His death, realized His understanding of all things...Jesus disciples said now we can see You understand all things and that You came from God (John 16:30)...
The Book of Job teaches us lessons on God, faith, and understanding...Job after many questions for God -God comes out of a storm in Job chapter thirty eight, and he (Job) is questioned by God...Job, only then, realizes he did not understand many things...We, as man, want to understand many and most things, but sometimes, we do not realize just how much we do not understand...Job in finally realizing this says "I know now You know all things" and "Surely I spoke of things I did not understand." (Job 42:2-3)...St. John also teaches us a lesson on understanding of these things...Jesus is explaining being reborn to Nicodemus...Jesus tells him that in understanding the Kingdom of God, we must know how to be born again...Being born again is like the wind...The wind blows whenever and wherever it pleases...You hear the sound, but man cannot tell where it came from or where it is going...So it is with everyone born and reborn of the Spirit...Nicodemus does not know where the wind comes from or where it is going, but God does...To quote Job, "I know now You know all things, surely there are things I do not understand."...We never will know all things unless God wants us to...The disciples said something very similar (as stated earlier) to Jesus (John 16:30)...
We sometimes think we need to understand things to know or believe that they happen around us, or in our lives...Some of Jesus teachings are hard, very hard to understand...But just because we do not understand things, does not mean it does not work or they are not there, or that they are not true...I do not know how my brain works, but it does...So to get to God, we must go beyond our understanding...This is faith...Understanding is understanding and different from faith...We must get to faith like Abraham, Paul, Job, and Nicodemus did...We often do not even realize that we do not understand how something works, but believe in it anyway, -like the brain and how it works for us...And even though, we find something hard to understand, that does not make it untrue...Often, we go beyond understanding and do believe in things...For instance how and why is the sky blue?...How did the tree get here?...We know the sky is blue and that we have trees...We just believe and know that the sky is blue and we have trees...But when we believe in God and don't quite understand how and why He created the earth and man, it takes "something else" (in us), to get us beyond understanding...So let us not because we do not understand something fail to have faith...Faith is an act, an action...Faith is a step, a jump, or this action of our thoughts are commonly called a leap...This leap of faith bridges our not understanding God -to God...The leap of faith takes us to God, in the way Abraham saw Him...In Abraham's thought he saw or felt the Messiah, and rejoiced in that thought...When we can believe in God, the Father, and His Son, Jesus, this "something else", this thought is called faith..
There are many thoughts about faith...Faith is not something tangible...Faith is something that can grow, like a seed, a mustard seed...A mustard seed needs water to grow, faith needs prayer to grow...Jesus teaches us much about the heart...He says that where your treasures are, that is where your heart is (Luke 12:34)...Faith is a treasure, that comes from the heart...Jesus is the light, and our faith feels that light...Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life...He stood up two thousand years ago, and said I AM Truth...In His life, He walked the way of faith...If we want to have a strong faith, we must walk the same path He did...One's faith in His faith and love for us, maybe the strongest thing one has in this lifetime...
We often ask our most deep questions in times of trouble...It seems in times of mourning and discomfort we ask the hard questions...Why didn't I get this, why didn't I get that job, why am I sick, why I am poor, God where were You when this was going on in my life?...It is good to clear the mind and heart of painful feelings...Faith is something that needs exercised...Faith is not something that is used just once, put on a shelf, and then came back to in times of troubles...Faith does not seem to work best, when we are at our best, and get all the things we want...It does not take much faith to receive gifts...And if you have everything you could possibly want, then it seems less faith is required...Jesus two great sermons, the Sermon on the Mount and the Sermon on the Plain, He touches on some of these questions and times...What He tells us, is that we are blessed when we are in discomfort...He says we are blessed when we are mourning...What, I think, He is telling us, is that when we are seeking God, and trying to get close to Him, that is such a good thing...When we are at the best of our times, maybe we do not seek Him as much as we could or can...Why would Jesus teach us we are blessed and happy during these hard times?...It is because we are searching for God with our hearts...When we search for God with our hearts, we will find Him...Jesus taught us much about suffering...When we are suffering and have pain we have a need...Maybe we use a different part of our heart, when we are suffering and have this need...You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart (Jeremiah 29:13)...
To further this point say we get everything we ever and always want...It takes great faith to believe that life is good, and that God is there when you have and get very little...It is hard to trust God and keep the faith when many prayers are answered with a "no"...And let's be facetious and say we can get everything we want and we can get it quickly...Do we need God?...Probably not, there is no need, we have everything...Without need, there maybe no reason for faith...And without faith, there is no need for God...
Life has a way of moving forward...We should learn from these Great Sermons on the Plain and Mount...These Sermons turn our earthly desires upside down...We are more attuned to earth and what it holds, than we are with Jesus and His Father, as we read through these two Great Sermons...
We must realize that their is the natural desire to ask why, be curious, and want to learn more about God...There is a natural desire to be as close to God as we can get...He is our Creator...This is why we have questions about life...When we realize this our faith grows...God IS listening...He is there...He was there, with you in your difficult times...It is good we understand that God is not going to give us everything we want, even though we may only want a few things...It is good that we will never understand all the things the God knows...He wants us to seek Him, and ask about Him...He wants you to learn from these difficult times...He wants us to learn from the times, we think He is hiding...And in this great mystery of we thinking He is hiding, St. Paul says that God put each of us on earth, at His exact time -so we would seek Him and He is not far from any of us (Acts 17:27)...Also we must remember during our especially difficult times, we cannot count on our own understanding... Like Job realized, there are certain things only God can understand...We must understand that there are things we will not understand...And this is where faith comes in...For those things we do not understand, we must trust in the LORD...Trusting in the LORD is a sign of your faith...God sees this...He understands this...Faith is hoping in the LORD, when we do not understand why we are in this most difficult of times...
Our faith does not come without doubt, just as faith is not the complete understanding of all things...Faith may have and can have self-doubt...But faith never gives up hope...I think that faith without doubt is Truth...And that is why I think Jesus says He is Truth (John 14:6)...His Truth meant always doing God's will...
We have freewill and a choice to have faith and to believe or not believe in God...This is how He has made the world, and faith in the world He created...He wants us to believe in Him and He wants us to have faith in Him...This is and can be very complicated, or be very simple -the world and faith...Each of us individually can make it very complicated or believe like a simple child...God wants us to choose Him, and have faith...We know that without faith it is impossible to please Him...Because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and He rewards those who earnestly seek Him (Hebrews 11:6)...So without faith, we cannot please our Father...So we must have faith to both believe that He exists, and we must have faith to please Him...This is the way He has made the world...He has made our world through this type of free-will faith...Faith is a choice, our choice...
Faith is something that rarely "just happens."...Faith is a support, a foundation, and a confidence that most of the time takes time to grow...So most faith is built one day at a time...This foundation should have a base and basis...Most of the time faith comes by reading and hearing God's Word...This is the way or a way of seeking Him...The basis of faith is God...Faith should be based on God and His Word...Faith then -is based on Truth...Truth came first, and our faith followed...
When the Twelve were in a boat and a furious squall came up they looked at Jesus for safety and security...They ask Him if He cared if they drowned...He did not answer their question...What He did was get up and personally talk to the wind and the waves...The wind died down and then it was completely calm...Then He ask the Twelve, “Why are you so afraid?...Do you still have no faith?”...He did a miracle, but He was more concerned that they learn about faith, and faith in Him...Faith is more than Him doing a miracle for the Twelve or for us...Safety and security is not necessarily faith -even with faith, there will be storms in our lives...Jesus was with them and literally in the same boat as they were...If they had faith that He, the Messiah, was in their presence (which He was), then everything is alright...He taught them a lesson this day about faith...He taught them a lesson about Himself and who He was...They also learned that He could talk to the wind and the waves...He was teaching them, that He was different and different in a divine way...They were safe with Him, if they had faith...
He is with those who believe in Him...When two or more are gathered in His name, He is there...When you have faith in Him and His Father, He is there...We cannot get around the storms of life or the troubles in our world, but He brings this type of peace that is not of this world, but of the world above...Him just being there for us and with us is everything...What else could one want?...
Faith follows the Son...Faith trusts in the LORD...Faith believes in God's Word...Faith is not something that always comes quickly, nor does faith always come to us as we might expect...Faith and our belief in the LORD can be sometimes a slow, painful journey through the void and desolation of suffering...Yet, faith gives us the hope of something new...Faith is something that can be renewed, from Someone who can make all things both new and renewed...
Faith (and hope) may only be earthly virtues...I often read where our LORD hides...God may be hidden and remain hidden, because He wants us to have faith, while we are on earth...By seeking Him regularly, we may grow our faith...It is possible, and this is only an opinion, once we reach heaven -faith may be no more...If faith is as the Hebrew author writes, the reality of things being hoped for, the proof of things that we cannot see (Hebrews 11:1), we may no longer need our faith then (in heaven)...This would be because now we can see those TWO we love...We will be able to see the Father and His Son...So what on earth we cannot see, we then will be able to see...We will see THEM in heaven...The Hebrew's author also tells us that Jesus is the Perfecter, the Author and Finisher of our faith (KJV)...Faith becomes Perfect in heaven...Jesus may completely complete and finish earthly faith itself...For now we will be able to see the things that we have hoped for and have had faith in...Once in heaven, the Truth and LOVE will be there, and shall be seen...We will be actually seeing and living with Truth and LOVE, for God is LOVE...We will see the Perfecter of Faith and Perfection of Man...Our faith will be with the Love, we have for Him and His Son...In heaven, I think faith and hope, may evolve into Love and Truth...So, if faith does still remain and still exist in heaven, it may no longer be abstract, faith maybe very tangible and something very, very real...Faith may become something we can actually see and touch in heaven...We may not need (this earthly) faith that we have had, because we will be in the Presence of God and His Son...So faith may no longer be necessary in heaven, once we are with our LORD and Savior...We might be able to feel and touch Him like St. Thomas did...We will see the Author and the Finisher of our faith in heaven...So we may not need faith at that time, because in a sense, we will now be living out our faith, because we will be living with the Father and His Son...
But on earth, faith has struggles...Faith has questions...Faith often lies somewhere between belief and non-belief...For me faith is not something that is perfectly certain and solid...And because of this, doubt sometimes attaches to my faith, and maybe doubt has to be there...Uncertainty and doubt maybe necessary for faith...If there was was no doubt whatsoever, would we need faith?...Because of doubt, faith seems to be and get knocked down and knocked back many times in one's life, yet somehow faith gets back up and we somehow sense God again...And faith is like this...I think faith has been down and out many times throughout mankind's history, but God comes back again and again...God gets overlooked, time and again, yet He is here, not far from each one of us...Things of God and God Himself cannot be overthrown, outdated, or overlooked, because one cannot fight God...God cannot be forgotten...Because God has set eternity in our hearts, yet we cannot understand what God has done from the beginning until now (Ecclesiastes 3:11)...God's Will always gets done...And those with faith believe this...