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Faith isn’t idealism or putting a positive spin on challenging things that come our way. Faith isn’t detached optimism that allows us to abstractly live in our minds so our emotions can avoid the reality of suffering & pain. It’s not a fluffy word, it’s an earthy word/1
It’s a word that describes a two sided process. One side is grasping hold of a broken world and having greater honesty about our sin-filled hearts and damaged relationship to God & the world./ 2
The other side of faith is grasping hold of the reality of the message, the promise that God has entered into this broken world and because of Christ birth, life, death and resurrection —reconciles us to himself and dwells within our very soul./ 3
Faith gives us the capacity to walk into the shadows knowing Christ’s light surrounds us. That whatever is revealed to us about ourselves or this world, is revealed for the sake of love. It allows us to hold the reality of darkness & Christ’s redemption and re-creation. /4
Faith is the act of seeing the dark truths of ourselves & this world & turning toward the truth of Christ’s welcome and desire to inhabit us. It’s refusing to run away from truth into further isolation & self deception, but discovering again and again the promises of Christ. /end
