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How do I "make" myself believe?
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<blockquote data-quote="aiki" data-source="post: 68647373" data-attributes="member: 178791"><p>Where do you "get faith"? Well, the reality is you have plenty of faith that you exercise toward other people, systems, implements and organizations every day. You can't really live life without faith. The problem, then, isn't that you haven't got faith but that you are unwilling to place it in Christ. Christianity, you see, is, at its heart, about <em>him</em>. Many people try to reduce Christianity to a set of propositions and concepts but that is to mistake very badly what Christianity is. At bottom, Christianity is about a relationship with Christ.</p><p></p><p>Generally, people tend to trust only those whom they know. And the better they know a person, the greater the trust they are willing to place in that person (provided what they know of that person warrants such trust). How well do you know Jesus? How much time have you spent studying him and his teachings? Jesus does not require that we trust him as a complete unknown.</p><p></p><p>It's been my experience that the more I focus on a thing, the more it influences and shapes me. If I focus on a particular fear, for example, that fear magnifies in my mind and dominates my thoughts. It's just how we're made. So, if you are focused intently upon your struggle to have faith, that focus can become the very thing impeding your faith. You're too preoccupied with not having faith in God to actually let faith in Him develop. An ironic, but common problem.</p><p></p><p>Selah.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aiki, post: 68647373, member: 178791"] Where do you "get faith"? Well, the reality is you have plenty of faith that you exercise toward other people, systems, implements and organizations every day. You can't really live life without faith. The problem, then, isn't that you haven't got faith but that you are unwilling to place it in Christ. Christianity, you see, is, at its heart, about [I]him[/I]. Many people try to reduce Christianity to a set of propositions and concepts but that is to mistake very badly what Christianity is. At bottom, Christianity is about a relationship with Christ. Generally, people tend to trust only those whom they know. And the better they know a person, the greater the trust they are willing to place in that person (provided what they know of that person warrants such trust). How well do you know Jesus? How much time have you spent studying him and his teachings? Jesus does not require that we trust him as a complete unknown. It's been my experience that the more I focus on a thing, the more it influences and shapes me. If I focus on a particular fear, for example, that fear magnifies in my mind and dominates my thoughts. It's just how we're made. So, if you are focused intently upon your struggle to have faith, that focus can become the very thing impeding your faith. You're too preoccupied with not having faith in God to actually let faith in Him develop. An ironic, but common problem. Selah. [/QUOTE]
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