January 16, 2020 • 11 mins
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For all the doubters, discouraged and downtrodden... here is a letter to self. From my first blog post ever, almost a decade now. I wrote this because I have always struggled in faith. A letter to my self was a way for me to keep myself encouraged. If you ever ask questions like “what does it mean to believe in God?” Or “What is faith?” This one is for you.
More at https://jnwheels.com/the-3m-podcast/
Music by Mattia Cupelli
FULL TEXT:
Dear Me,
Some say, “It is hard to believe.”
They honestly state, “I cannot believe in what is unseen.”
“I have no faith toward God, because I cannot see Him with my eye.”
And yet without reserve, doubting, they place their measure of faith in what is seen.
“Unless I can see it, it will not satisfy.”
The faith of disbelief in God is placed elsewhere.
You might say:
“I faith what I feel.”
“If I feel it, I believe it. If I taste, touch, hear or see it, I accept it.”
“If I can argue for it, or reason through it, than surely I would give my life for it.”
As people, we mostly believe that it is a satisfying thing to be able to see the object of our affections. But if you can see what you place your hope in, yet draw no joy from it, there is no pleasure in the seen thing at all. I have found most often that the seen things are the empty things – the letdowns in the end. We looked to be fulfilled and yet fulfilled we are not.
Empty we come to our table and there find no fullness at all – only the same old desire unfulfilled. And so we are on the hunt.
Searching to be satisfied.
Our hearts are beating for a single treasure.
The desire of man is probing the pleasures of life – hoping – expecting by faith, and panting for calm in a world full of storm. The desire of man is to be satisfied, and yet seeing, we are still wanting. And hearing many things, we are still deaf to the answer. Seeing the objects of our faith, most of us are unmoved. I don’t mean that we are not accepted or are without some definition or meaning or purpose, but I mean that we are left unaffected. Untouched by our roaming faith.
Money is the god of some and yet though they move money, money does not move them. I can change my surroundings or possessions with money but money cannot speak to me, comfort me, hear my cries and relieve my anxieties. It cannot bring relief and companionship to the lonely heart.
Sex is the god of many. All effort, emotion, and mind are consumed with this act or vision. Faith in the groped-for fleeting satisfaction of fornication. Yet we are untouched or fulfilled by sex. Though moving in sex, though moving from one partner to another in this act, we are not moved by it in heart. Satisfied but for a moment only, and then the moment passes. Lasting satisfaction is lacking because sex satisfies mostly the body but for a moment then, it is fleeting. The body is left hungering only for more but without being truly and lastingly pleased.
Dreams,
Degrees,
Education,
Self-worth,
Popularity,
Praise,
Heroism…
And the list could go on.
We are searching for contentment.
The mind and body are hungry for meaning, but what if man is more than just body and mind? Though what is seen is natural, what if in what lies beyond the “eyes-seen” world is where we are only satisfied? In the seemingly unnatural?
Though men move naturally toward satisfaction and self-worth, they are not moved by what they grope for.
What if the seen does not satisfy because the unseen in man hu
Watch this in Blog Film format on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/_toN15clxc4
For all the doubters, discouraged and downtrodden... here is a letter to self. From my first blog post ever, almost a decade now. I wrote this because I have always struggled in faith. A letter to my self was a way for me to keep myself encouraged. If you ever ask questions like “what does it mean to believe in God?” Or “What is faith?” This one is for you.
More at https://jnwheels.com/the-3m-podcast/
Music by Mattia Cupelli
FULL TEXT:
Dear Me,
Some say, “It is hard to believe.”
They honestly state, “I cannot believe in what is unseen.”
“I have no faith toward God, because I cannot see Him with my eye.”
And yet without reserve, doubting, they place their measure of faith in what is seen.
“Unless I can see it, it will not satisfy.”
The faith of disbelief in God is placed elsewhere.
You might say:
“I faith what I feel.”
“If I feel it, I believe it. If I taste, touch, hear or see it, I accept it.”
“If I can argue for it, or reason through it, than surely I would give my life for it.”
As people, we mostly believe that it is a satisfying thing to be able to see the object of our affections. But if you can see what you place your hope in, yet draw no joy from it, there is no pleasure in the seen thing at all. I have found most often that the seen things are the empty things – the letdowns in the end. We looked to be fulfilled and yet fulfilled we are not.
Empty we come to our table and there find no fullness at all – only the same old desire unfulfilled. And so we are on the hunt.
Searching to be satisfied.
Our hearts are beating for a single treasure.
The desire of man is probing the pleasures of life – hoping – expecting by faith, and panting for calm in a world full of storm. The desire of man is to be satisfied, and yet seeing, we are still wanting. And hearing many things, we are still deaf to the answer. Seeing the objects of our faith, most of us are unmoved. I don’t mean that we are not accepted or are without some definition or meaning or purpose, but I mean that we are left unaffected. Untouched by our roaming faith.
Money is the god of some and yet though they move money, money does not move them. I can change my surroundings or possessions with money but money cannot speak to me, comfort me, hear my cries and relieve my anxieties. It cannot bring relief and companionship to the lonely heart.
Sex is the god of many. All effort, emotion, and mind are consumed with this act or vision. Faith in the groped-for fleeting satisfaction of fornication. Yet we are untouched or fulfilled by sex. Though moving in sex, though moving from one partner to another in this act, we are not moved by it in heart. Satisfied but for a moment only, and then the moment passes. Lasting satisfaction is lacking because sex satisfies mostly the body but for a moment then, it is fleeting. The body is left hungering only for more but without being truly and lastingly pleased.
Dreams,
Degrees,
Education,
Self-worth,
Popularity,
Praise,
Heroism…
And the list could go on.
We are searching for contentment.
The mind and body are hungry for meaning, but what if man is more than just body and mind? Though what is seen is natural, what if in what lies beyond the “eyes-seen” world is where we are only satisfied? In the seemingly unnatural?
Though men move naturally toward satisfaction and self-worth, they are not moved by what they grope for.
What if the seen does not satisfy because the unseen in man hu
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