Faith?

Faith*

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Your faith, ain't just com-mod-if-ic-at-ing

beliefs: collect/present, or berating.. 

Since it accesses.., then expresses through.., 

it also "will transform.." your whole world view.

Equate your faith with your set of beliefs,

then find your view truncated, flattened out,

but still you'll have to utilize the chief

strands of your saving-life rope, & not pout

about its colour, or its mass-prod-uc-

-tion. Is it strong enough to pull one in?

So, "Can a faithful friend be seen as such?"

If so, then see you hold on, as you've been..

doing, in ensuing time since then.

So faith exists, and builds, & grows (or wanes),

organic'ly between two friends for when

each keeps their word, & understands the pains

the other goes through, there's a chance for real

true friendship (faithfulness) to grow in soil;

that is a living crop, at first concealed

in space that's kept between the two, a foil

to just the sameness of peas in a pod;

a space where gardens flourish, or could grow.

Expressions must be made, with help from God,

communicating key beliefs we know

our friend, our Master, sees as key himself,

and help our brothers/ sisters, our true wealth,

to learn to trust themselves our father well;

committed to our fam'ly, 'gainst all hell.

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*  Faith= Belief + Trust + Action

(a mind convinced, a will committed, a lifestyle converted).

"What happened to your faith?" Omen asks Hrathen, [in Elantris…(a fantacy novel by Brandon Sanderson)]

then the narrator comments that "His beliefs, … had been precious to him."

The equating of faith with a set of beliefs is borne out in our modernistic tendency to set up belief statements as a way of expressing our faith. Jesus (& his ambassadors/apostles), however had another way of expressing his/their faith, & of 'seeing' faith expressed by others: Fruit in human life (lives); enactments of love, joy, & peace, of faith, hope, & love, of patience, kindness, gentleness (or humility), & self-control.

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