Do you REALLY know what faith is?

Question

Did you ever wake up in the morning knowing that there is nothing to eat? Did you ever spend hours in a line to apply for a job with your stomach rumbling because you are hungry? Did you ever tell your children that 2 days old bread and water is their dinner for the night? Did it ever take 2 years for you to get a job? Did you ever live your days from charity of your neighbors? Did you ever see yourself in a public hospital corridor waiting for a room in pain? Did you ever see your children crying because you don't have money to buy them a toy they want?

Did you ever live in mysery or at least close to it?

So you don't know what faith is!!

I've seen those people, I lived close to mysery and their strength come from faith and that is the real faith for me and not the one we get inside a comfortable church.

Answer 1

none of us like to say what our own personal mysery is
but I have had my fair share
and yes you are so right...
it is faith that gets us through

faith that things will get better , faith that tomorrow will be a better day

Answer 2

How about this, My family many times woke up wondering what would be there to eat beside a small left over piece of cornbread. Stand in line for a job? there where no jobs, you worked all day 10-12 hours in the rain, snow, heat for 1.10 a day. Two years? try two decades, to feed 5, that doest count the 4 you buried in between. No hospitals, No waiting rooms, just a midwife, or the country Dr. How about in 1965, knowing something bad wrong was in you, and buying a hospital insurance policy and paying faithfully for 12 months every week until the "grace" period was over, all the while knowing that inside you the "it" was growing, finally the policy went into effect and you had the tumor removed, and prayed to God you never needed it again, cause guess what, they just canceled you. Buying Toys? try making kits, out of old thrown away roll up window blinds, sling shots out of sticks, and inner tubes. Dolls out of corn shucks and rags. My family's been there, and all the while, God was praised, and honored for what he did supply, love, happiness, safety, a strong family, never a true night of nothing to eat just not the best. Faith, it is what build most of this nation. God Bless.

Answer 3

Isn't it hard sometimes to have faith. I simply gave up a few weeks ago, and really had to get back to reality. I had to sit down and think of the starving children in Africa, the wars, the event of 911and so on. It made me realize that the things that were going on in my life, may not be so bad after all. They say that sometimes the people God makes suffer the most are the people he loves the most, and I decided that he must love me abundantly. Keep the faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, not yet seen.

Answer 4

I'm not sure if you're making social commentary or if you're asking a question. If you're making social commentary, I think it may be a stretch to suggest that only poor, suffering people can understand faith. Faith, by its very definition, is belief in something for which their is not evidence. Ironically, the word "delusional" also has the same definition. I can assure you, the rich can be just as delusional, if not more so, than the poor. Rediculous reliance on ancient literature as the foundation for structuring one's life is not an economic matter, although one could probably argule that it is an educational matter.

Here's some faith counter question for you: do you think that the victims of September 11th that burned to death in the towers prayed to God that they would live? Do you think that their families prayed the same thing? If so, was Jesus lying when he said "aks and you shall receive" and "nothing shall be impossible for you"? Does God actually answer prayers, such as medical prayers? If so, why do you have medical insurance? Are you working against God's plan by having medical insurance?

Answer 5

Faith is applying towards an ideal - the result of your applying will reap its benefits in you, as you begin to embody it step by step. That is a living faith. It isn't just believing, it refers to becoming. The church faith is a lie because it is not accompanied by gnosis, as you live the truth in the manner that you understand it, you gain a greater capacity for that truth, until you become the truth. There is a difference between blind faith and living faith.

The people you refer to are people who are doing the best with the cards they have been dealt, their faith is in a ideal that is freed from poverty, they move towards that ideal. An ideal is something that appears off, something that is unseen but exist as a seed in you that you water, knowing that it will be nourished and blossom with the effort/energy you put toward it.

Answer 6

Did you ever have to run for your life from an abusive husband when you were 7 months pregnant and the only way that you could eat was to walk up and down the ditch bank looking for bottles to sell so that you could buy something to eat and after your son was born did you wonder how long the 2 cans of milk and five pampers that the hospital gave you would last? That's what happened to me but I never lost the faith and that happened over 26 years ago. I raised my son alone and I'm doing fine now and keeping the faith. I'm a writer and please visit my website at http://www.rubysbooks.i8.com.

Answer 7

Yes acually, I have, there have been times we would have not electricity for months at a time (summer and winter) even times when we had no water we would eat beans constantly, or ramen noodles for breakfast and lunch, we had to depend on family for food and clothes for me and my lil sis and bros. My dad was to sick to work and my mom did what she could but we are from the a small town with no job oppertunities and we could not afford a car to go back and forth to work. I finally went to work at 15 to help support my family. And you know what we did we prayed every night and read our bible as a family, and we did not starve, though we may not have the best or most food and we always had clothes and shoes, We never lost faith, because God was and is still with us and he still is and for that i am thankful. I am also thank ful for the hard times because now, we are a very strong family

Answer 8

Faith is hope in the Lord's help to bring strength to face the trials of life.

My faith is the same that was in the pass life. That explains why my faith was strong as a young child before a began family church.

Answer 9

just because I never did any of this doesn't mean I don't know faith it means I was never so poor that I could barely live. Have you every watched some one shoot themselves, and then laugh because They were so high they didn't realize it, have you ever watched your mother come home at three in the morning drunk with a black eye and try to offer you pot? God blessed me and showed me the error of my ways, so I have loads of faith, I hope you will learn the difference. Being poor doesn't give you faith if gives you the will to carry on.

Answer 10

Yes everything is happening as it is without undermining my concept of God because all these events are for the tests of one in his God.All the miseries and suffering have a much higher reward.The one who is suffering, the one because of whom the sufferings have been caused and also the one who does not bother about the sufferer and the one who tries to alleviate that suffering but there are other things which make you to continue life against all these odds.