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April 21st, 2006 by peaches
Nick, I have to confess I’ve contemplated to conveniently overlook what I said to you about contributing and scrap the idea of writing in. But since I’ve had these long thoughts about myself all this week about how I’m not doing better, I think I’ll just try OK?
I don’t have a topic, really. Let’s just see how things go as I ramble and not feed the urge to stop typing every fraction of a second to correct everything that I’ve said. So here goes…
Scenario:
This friend and I were under tremendous stress over our work load and were just at our workplace, stoning. At this point, our brain’s been declared non-functional for at least half an hour then he said something out of no where.
“Somewhere in the scriptures it says ‘act as if you have faith and it shall be given to/put upon you. In other words, fake it and it’ll happen,†says this guy reaching enlightenment.
And I was thinking, this makes sense! Or at least I wanted it to be true, because I’ve been pretending for things to be alright and hoping that I can wing it somehow. Great, I thought, I’m on the right track, it’ll happen! That’s what faith is all about isn’t it? Not knowing and just keeping at it?
“Great thinking.â€
He nods smiling in growing wisdom then slumped back into his chair and snoozed for a bit.
So then I thought about it today. “Fake it and it’ll happen.†I realise I wasn’t too comfortable with the idea of faking it, because it intends to deceive. That can’t be right, right? I mean the concept of knowing exactly how things will turn out even with divine intervention is a myth. Okay, perhaps not a myth but it’s a rarity. Okay, I’m not making any sense.
But the thought I’m pondering on is whether the idea of acting like we have faith is the same as faking it (it sounds wrong doesn’t it? but think about it). And if it is interchangeable, then faking it’ll get us through. It discredits the point on whether we have faith or not. It does not matter. We just have to act like we do, and trust that will happen. I do that sometimes. Okay, most.
Is that deception? I don’t know.
Shed some little light here, please. Any colour.
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April 22nd, 2006 at 9:29 am
the bible also most importantly says faith without works is dead. I understand its circular reasoning, cause then if faking it produces works, was that faking it now called faith? I beg to differ.
Faith is not faking it, Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen”. If you/me are/is faking it, you and I do not have an assurance, you and I do not have a conviction. You and I are just… faking it!
And the scripture DOES NOT say “act as if you have faith and it shall be given to/put upon you.”
I guess at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if we have faith or fake it with ourselves. Waking up everyday to the mirror and reciting NewAge self-improvement quotes from Anthony Robbins or whoever will not get us by. Sure, it gives us a headstart, but faith (even in ourselves) is dead without works. You can tell yourself all sorts of things but its your end-product that counts.
BUT…
Faith in God is different. We are SURE that He can deliver. He is GOD, for goodness’ sake. He is ALL powerful, ALL present, ALL loving, ALL forgiving. And he looks at the heart (1Sam16:7).
Man may not know tell the difference if you’re faking it or having faith. But God knows. And to me, God’s the only one you/I should impress.
Hope this helped? haha
God bless!
April 24th, 2006 at 10:42 am
gothcha!
thanks for respond!