Monday, February 26, 2007
Faith

Sometimes you don't know how much you miss something until it is gone. We missed Christian Ethics for the past week because of Drivers Ed., and even though it can be a little boring just sitting there reading "Just Like Jesus" every day (which, by the way, is not a bad book...but the way we are reading it has made me become uninterested, to say the least), I have missed listening to Mr. Nickel's strange rants. He makes me think.

Personally, I have missed ranting lately too.

So here it goes: Mr. Nickel stated today that our faith is "completely irrational". This kind of stuck with me for the rest of the day...because I think he kind of stated the obvious. Could any faith be rational?

Think about it: with simple things that can be drawn out in black and white there is no need for a faith of any sort! This is a lame example, but think about the batteries you use in your iPod or mp3 player...eventually they will die, right? So you would never say, "I have faith that my batteries will die!" You would just sound like an idiot. Obviously, they will die; it's rational. It's just the way things work. So there is no faith in that, because faith is defined as being sure of the things we cannot see.

Now say for example you said, "I have faith that my batteries will never run out of juice!" You would sound like an idiot saying that too! This is an example of an irrational belief. It doesn't make sense by any laws of science that your batteries could live forever on their own. However, there is a solution: a charger. The Bible states that "faith without action is dead", and so is a rechargeable battery without a charger. What's the point? So why would you even choose to say "I'm a Christian, I believe what the Bible says" unless you actually choose to live it out?

Just like a charger can revive a battery, Christ can make our lives new. It takes a certain kind of faith to know that electricity is running through your outlet, and a similar type to trust that Christ is working to transform you, every day you allow him to. The results can be amazing...but only after you put the batteries in your iPod and press play.

So the fact that I would give up my scars to an "abstract being" in some minds may be totally irrational...but if it were not so, I would not have a faith.

He takes over my scars and I put my life in His.

Just a thought.

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