The Reality of Faith
In reality, faith always springs from a relationship. You don’t have faith that it won’t rain for your party tomorrow or to win the lottery. Faith is the result of believing someone. It is an unconscious process of acting on something because we believe someone. If you scheduled that outdoor party tomorrow, it’s because the weatherman said it would not rain. You believed the weatherman. Faith is beyond reason. If we are acting on reason, it isn’t faith.
When I had that GBS, it wasn’t reasonable that I would walk again. The doctors said I would not. I had to step out in faith beyond reason. I had to be a proactive step on my part. And there was a relationship, and it wasn’t with the doctor. It was with God. If I had believed the doctors I would never have walked again.
(from The Illusion by Carl Townsend, (c) 2008