Where will you place your faith???

Faith is important if it is built upon experience. Without experience as its foundation, faith becomes merely a hope, and hope alone is weak. It does not have the power to face disappointment and uncertainty
sufficiently.

To have faith in God will depend upon one’s expectations. What do you expect from God? What do you want from God? What are you willing to give to God?

Though faith itself can cover a broad range of experience, its value can be determined, then. upon what the motives are behind it, what the expectations are and what one expects or even demands of God.

People are very disappointed in God because certain expectations are not met. These individuals have experienced loss, the loss of loved ones or disappointment and failure. They have experienced tragedy, and
now their notion and their confidence that God exists is shaken and
sometimes even destroyed.

People will have faith in something because to have faith is natural. If they do not have faith in God, they will have faith in something else that takes the place of God. They may have faith in their
government. They may have faith in the economy. They may have faith in
industry. They may have faith in themselves and their abilities. They
may have faith in certain individuals. They may have faith in nature.
But whatever it is, they will have faith. To be without faith is to be
without relationship, and to be without relationship is to live in hell.

The question then becomes what does one have faith in and what is the nature of that faith? Is it built upon real experience, or is it built upon ideas or philosophy? Is this faith well placed, and does it
have real strength to it?

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