Forever Faithful

How does faith relate to the world in which we live?

Faith: believing in something or someone, even though you can give no reason for what you believe in at times; you just know it's true (for you, anyways).

The world we live in today is full of faithful people, just not in the sense that people usually think of the word. Everyone has faith, it's that people have faith in different ideals. Some people have faith in Jesus, others have faith in money, and still others have faith in nothing. Of course, it seems a bit odd to think that a person could have faith in "nothing," but even a faith in nothing is faith, because that person is believing in the fact that life is meaningless and you might as well live it however you like. Nihilism, anyone?

Faith is pretty powerful. It can get people to do things they wouldn't have done if they didn't believe whatever it is that they believe in. But faith can be dangerous, too. It makes people do things for the reasons they think is right, which may not necessarily be right for somebody else. For example, as Christians, we know that God wants us to tell other people about Jesus, and that it's "the right thing to do." Yet for non-Christians, they oftentimes see it as rude and degrading for a Christian to come up to them and say, "If you don't repent now, you're going to hell!" I know, because before I was a Christian, I would always look at them and say, "They act like Christians on Sundays and in Bible class, but then they turn around and start swearing and doing things that don't look very Christian." I'm not saying I'm the epitome of a perfect Christian, but I think it would help a lot if we Christians stopped acting like our faith is the only faith on the planet. We have to remember that other people have their own ideas about life, and we have to respect that. After all, who likes being told that what they believe in is one hundred percent fabrication?

Of course, no one can truly judge what the right faith is. Even as Christians, we never truly know for sure what will happen when we die. That's why we have faith, because we're trusting that God is the truth. In the same way, other people are trusting that their ideas are the truth.

That's why faith is such an integral part of our world today.