Faith: The Power to Move
October 2, 2016
by Dominic Dimapawi
by Dominic Dimapawi
Poster by Kenichi Tigas
TO SEE is to believe, they say. But have you ever tried to believe on something regardless if you can see it or not? If yes, congratulations, you just had faith.
A common object of our thought is faith because it requires trust on intangible things. We look forward to the future because we have hope that it will be fine. We are loyal to people who, at times, are lost and complicated because we trust them no matter what.
Faith can look beyond the corporeal reality. It is an act when our hearts incline to something uncertain. When we fall, we are confident that someone would catch us. Cheesy as it may seem but our faith in God is our love for God.
In Luke 17:5-10, Jesus exclaimed that even if you have faith as minuscule as a mustard seed, you can still do great things. Faith can move mountains as many would say, as to what the bible said in Matthew. However, the question that remains is ‘how?’ How can something abstract and conceptual move something physical and massive? Would that not go against nature, or if it could, would it not alter the balance of the universe because of the intense effort exerted into making mental imagery real?
Well, that is just in a scientific perspective, but the message behind such a statement wishes us to imagine how faith, even at dull and gloomy moments, can change everything; everything is indeed something vast.
We do not have faith to simply say “I believe,” but to say “I believe because I live.” What does this mean? Basically it means that in this material world, God balances out our spiritual thirst. It is utterly difficult to live solely by material things and leave out what is spiritual. If we were to live by this, then we would be so full of ourselves to the point that we do not know where to put it all.
Our faith gives us this spiritual freedom, and I do mean spiritual freedom, for to be filled with God’s love is to be free with it, not fettered. This allows us to move towards the good and ultimately avoid the evil. Our devotion to the people we love moves us to act for the good [for them].
It is uncommon for one to do wrong towards a person they purely love. More or less their act was of good intention, but we may have seen it in a different light.
Faith does not only move others, but it also moves you. It pushes you to push all your fears to the curb and just walk into that dark room where God will be your guiding light.
Moreover, the beauty about it does not reside only in risk taking and leaps of faith, but also in the fact that belief, that devotion and loyalty, makes the world less cruel and heavy. It is through this do we co-relate with others and by this we carry each other all the way.
As long as you have faith, you will never be alone.
That’s ultimately why faith can move mountains, for it moves others and it moves you towards the greatness and beauty of God.
To see is to believe, they say.
But have you ever believed on something regardless if you can see it or not? If yes, congratulations, you had faith on it.
A common object of our thought is faith because it requires trust on intangible things. We look forward to the future because we have hope that it will be fine. We are loyal to people who, at times, are lost and complicated because we trust them no matter what.
Faith can look beyond the corporeal reality. It is an act when our hearts incline to something uncertain. When we fall, we are confident that someone would catch us. Cheesy as it may seem but our faith in God is our love for God.
In Luke 17:5-10, Jesus exclaimed that even if you have faith as minuscule as a mustard seed, you can still do great things. Faith can move mountains as many would say, as to what the bible said in Matthew. However, the question that remains is ‘how?’ How can something abstract and conceptual move something physical and massive? Would that not go against nature, or if it could, would it not alter the balance of the universe because of the intense effort exerted into making mental imagery real?
Well, that is just in a scientific perspective, but the message behind such a statement wishes us to imagine how faith, even at dull and gloomy moments, can change everything; everything is indeed something vast.
We do not have faith to simply say “I believe,” but to say “I believe because I live.” What does this mean? Basically it means that in this material world, God balances out our spiritual thirst. It is utterly difficult to live solely by material things and leave out what is spiritual. If we were to live by this, then we would be so full of ourselves to the point that we do not know where to put it all.
Our faith gives us this spiritual freedom, and I do mean spiritual freedom, for to be filled with God’s love is to be free with it, not fettered. This allows us to move towards the good and ultimately avoid the evil. Our devotion to the people we love moves us to act for the good [for them].
It is uncommon for one to do wrong towards a person they purely love. More or less their act was of good intention, but we may have seen it in a different light.
Faith does not only move others, but it also moves you. It pushes you to push all your fears to the curb and just walk into that dark room where God will be your guiding light.
Moreover, the beauty about it does not reside only in risk taking and leaps of faith, but also in the fact that belief, that devotion and loyalty, makes the world less cruel and heavy. It is through this do we co-relate with others and by this we carry each other all the way.
As long as you have faith, you will never be alone.
That’s ultimately why faith can move mountains, for it moves others and it moves you towards the greatness and beauty of God.
To see is to believe, they say.
But have you ever believed on something regardless if you can see it or not? If yes, congratulations, you had faith on it.