Faith doesn't depend on facts and evidence. If it did, it wouldn't be faith.
Faith is the decision to put our trust and hope in Something that might not make any sense to our reasoning at all.
If we say we have faith, but constantly look for the proof and the evidence, aren't we deceiving ourselves?
Sure, while we walk in our faith, we might bump into these signs of proof and confirmation along the way. But if we don't have them, we still have faith.
Why don't we just do what faith requires? Why don't we just choose to lean our entire weight into the arms of Something we can't fully understand, and there let go of all our striving and our fear?
We could be wrong. We might all be up a gum-tree. But life without faith would be life without hope, and life without hope would be like the sea without a horizon.
Faith gives us freedom to hope, freedom to be right and freedom to be wrong.
Faith gives meaning and purpose to life, when facts and reasoning do nothing to null the emptiness inside, or meet our deepest longings, or give us hope when we're surrounded by the darkness of our pain and fears.
Faith makes us vulnerable, but it also gives us wings to fly when the engine of our own resources breaks down.
Faith. It's wild, unreasonable and makes no sense at all.
But I wouldn't be without it.
