What is faith, should we try to hang onto it, or not?

Some of us never let go of the love in our hearts, and maintain our faith in it, until the day that we die.
@innertalks (20908)
Australia
November 12, 2018 4:31pm CST
Faith is not something to try to hang onto, but it hangs not onto you either. Trying to grip faith with your mind tightens your mind, and so moves you away from the great flexibility that love always provides, you with. No, faith is not of the mind. Faith comes forth from the heart as a shield around love, so that when you love, you feel strengthened, protected even, that this love is right to follow, and to give out, and you are not afraid to do so because of the great faith you have in love, and in God, and in yourself too. Faith is simply gripping the cross of God in your heart with the love that he has placed in you, in all parts of you. Hanging on is loving, and so faith sustains you when you love God, yourself, and all others, because faith is like a shield of permissory attentiveness around love, that keeps you seeing the love, when otherwise you might not see it, because of the veneers created by other experiences in your life, such as pain, suffering, or hardship. Photo Credit: The photo used here belongs to me, the author of this piece. Some of us never let go of the love in our hearts, and maintain our faith in it, until the day that we die.
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@1hopefulman (45125)
• Canada
13 Nov 18
I always enjoy reading your posts! The best definition of what faith is, is found in Hebrews 11:1. In no way could I say it better. I think that faith, like love, is a gift from God.
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@1hopefulman (45125)
• Canada
13 Nov 18
@innertalks Yes, there is more than one ingredient in a recipe. Imagine what a cake would look like or taste like if it was made of only flour.
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@innertalks (20908)
• Australia
13 Nov 18
@1hopefulman Ha, ha, yes, just imagine it. That is a great analogy to use. Funny enough though, if we put a wrong ingredient into our cake, it does not then taste very good either. My mum once baked some oat cookies. She putting baking soda in it instead of flour. Two cups of it. She never realised this, nor did she taste her own cooking. Mum took the plate of nice looking cookies along to her church meeting. She placed them on the table, for people to enjoy at afternoon teatime. One old lady was talking to mum, and she reached over to the table, and took one of mum's cookies. She did not know who had made them, of course. She took one bite, made a terrible face, and spat it out quickly onto her teaplate saucer. She said to mum, "I wonder who made these. They taste terrible, too much soda in them." Mum still said nothing, but she was sort of holding back her laughter inside, just as much as she could do without showing it. She realised then what she must have done.
@1hopefulman (45125)
• Canada
13 Nov 18
@innertalks That is so true. A bad ingredient can nullify all the good ingredients.
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@porwest (78725)
• United States
13 Nov 18
Faith is the belief in something in the hope of something. Ultimately it may make us feel good in the short term. But I find it usually winds up to having false hope. It's nice to dream, it is nice to think, but I think at the end of the day we are just fooling ourselves and wasting precious time.
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@Shiva49 (26163)
• Singapore
14 Nov 18
I know the deep faith and love that your mother demonstrated all her life, Steve. I try to reciprocate in my own way the unquantifiable love of our creator that resonates in every nook and corner of creation that we see and also don't. The least we can do is to go about our lives keeping our creator in our thoughts and actions. The energy force that breathes life is never broken even for a millisecond and that reflects our creator's concern, love, and faith in us. I am deeply grateful to be part of this show and become more aware as my time is running out - siva
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@innertalks (20908)
• Australia
14 Nov 18
Thanks siva. I also feel that that love is existing and resonating in all parts of God's creation. As to being grateful, I myself have mixed feelings about it all. I do not like to be left in the dark, being not really 100 percent certain about these things. Sure, I get inklings, but I certainly have no certainty. Why doesn't God show himself more, and remove our doubts?
@innertalks (20908)
• Australia
15 Nov 18
@Shiva49 Interesting video Shiva. I think in many ways, our minds can never accept all that God is, and yet, we can know the truth about God, in our hearts. Our mind cannot hold the truth, nor can our heart, but for a moment, as truth is fleeting, coming in and out of us continually, and yet we know that the whole truth is there inside of us. It is placed in our hearts from our soul, our inner knowing, our intuition, even by God, and his spirit. Our heart is the holding vessel for truth, not our mind. God has many things that he cannot show us until we are ready to see them. Our minds can only hold so much at a time. So time allows us to build on what has gone before. This is because time exists in us, for us, and through this time, we can see all things over time, even as God sees them outside of time, all at once. Time allows us to see God's creation solidly, whereas God sees it in his head and heart, so to speak, and then it becomes solid outside of him in time, a dimension created for his creation to live and play in, even as he continuously looks on from outside. I feel myself as this outsider. That's why I find it hard to have any gratitude for me being in this position that I find myself within.
@Shiva49 (26163)
• Singapore
15 Nov 18
@innertalks As you know Steve I am with you on this. I take our beliefs with a grain of salt. I feel what we know is not the real deal! We have been visited upon from time to time by aliens as we can see from telltale historical evidence. The aliens may know how to erase the vital clues soon after they have done whatever they came to do. There are wheels within wheels in the creation and our history. Our recording of history is just over a couple of thousand years. Our archaeologists' explorations are more like looking for a needle in a haystack. Our different beliefs, in a way, set us on a wild goose chase! They all have some basis. If we are around for hundreds of thousands of years, why did not God make his presence earlier? There is no harm in thinking out of the box and have doubts aplenty. I give below a link to a post and my comments thereon siva
Take time to watch this specially those who are living in India and those who know about your (Indian) history. This will not take your myLot time, just 4...
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@Nevena83 (65287)
• Serbia
20 Nov 18
Yes, faith is the strongest weapon. And I agree that faith lives in the heart.
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@innertalks (20908)
• Australia
20 Nov 18
Thanks, yes, I do not think that faith would be real, if we just tried to have it in our minds.
@innertalks (20908)
• Australia
20 Nov 18
@Nevena83 Yes, living from our hearts makes us the happiest. I think that too.
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@Nevena83 (65287)
• Serbia
20 Nov 18
@innertalks I agree. We have to think with our heart. Even if you were to do the same thing in the way that our heart speaks, I think they would be happier.
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