“Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.” - St.  Augustine

What is faith?

I wonder whether faith is another type of illusion. Is it or isn’t it?

I learn from the resources I read that faith is actually the attitude of believing something is real – true – trusted – even though it’s not happening yet, or we cannot see yet that it’s going to happen.

And I learn from my daily life, that living in faith is sometimes a bit ambiguous – there’s a temptation in the mind whether it’s a real faith, or am I trying to deny the truth and live in an illusion? :)

For sometimes I have decided that I want to learn to live by faith… the faith that the God I trust will never leave me alone… no matter how ridiculous I’ve been. However several times in a day – everyday, I have to make a decision whether I should believe in faith or I should choose to believe with what I can see in reality. I learn that to live by faith is challenging.

The common thing that I learn to believe is about life partner… that God already has someone who will match me… even though I cannot see him yet… I don’t know who he is, and I might have not meet him yet, but I believe he’s there – somewhere around the corner, as what one of my friend has ever told me (to be honest I wonder in which corner is he now? :p). Some people will say that I live in an illusion with this faith :p, but I’m glad that certain friends that I’m close with believe it like a faith. It’s funny that this faith strengthens me not to accept less than what I have believed I will get. And the faith from my friends for me… in a way strengthens my own faith. I start to see the faith is like a chain reaction in chemistry :p.

The more people share the same faith in one thing, the stronger the belief that it is true and happening. I consider faith is a like substance inside the human soul that can grow. Like a human cell, it can grow stronger, and on the other side it can become weak too. If we nourish the faith it will get stronger, but if we neglect the faith it will become weaker and sooner or later we cannot find it in us anymore.

To believe in something that we cannot see… is a real challenge for a human. We tend to believe what we can see or predict, and we have difficulties to trust what we cannot see with our human eyes or what we cannot understand by our human brain.

Somehow I believe that faith is the weapon to fight the illusion of impossibility. The belief of the impossibility is caused by the understanding that things is limited –it is limited by the lack of understanding, limited by the value believed (obviously we have to choose what kind of value we want to believe) and limited by the ability of human mindset to think.

I have faith that I will write more about faith from now on ;).