Faith is the substance of things not seen
When giving up isn’t an option
How bad do you really want to see a change or improvement in something but then every bone in your body tells you it is impossible? The answer is FAITH. When we have nothing else but faith we can make the impossible possible. Faith in ourselves and in the unseen is that force that keeps us going, getting back up and taking risks. It is what kept the Wright brothers on track to inventing the airplane and Napoleon Hill’s son born without ears to hear. So what seems impossible might just be our chance to create something magnificent.
IMPOSSIBLE - I’M POSSIBLE when I first discovered the play on words in this word something within me leaped with joy for I realised that even in negative situations we can still find the positive if we have the right perspective and attitude. Not long ago as I went through my goals journal to evaluate them I found that I had to reset my priorities with the ones I was still working on. Some are still incredibly huge and it scares the living daylights out of me but as I read them over and over I could see myself getting more and more emotionally charged. Even though some had been put on the back burner for a while and others had taken a different form, I was still so keen to realise these dreams. I knew that if the desire to have them was still as strong then giving up on them was not an option for me.
So as I set the priority focus I took a minute and whispered - “I am not sure how I can achieve this or when but I am trusting You to make this clear as I take action towards them.”
I put a plan in place and delve into action, working in the evenings after my corporate job and over the weekends to see the manifestation of the first. Sometimes I went to bed with a prayer and meditating on the next course of action and I would wake up to an email I had been waiting on or something that helped me continue. There have been times where I have been doubtful, tired and frustrated at the pace but I always have faith in the fact that if these ideas have come to me and have stayed all this while, still as strong as when they first came to me then I have to keep working at them. Then remembering what Napoleon Hill once quoted, “Whatever your mind can conceive and believe (with faith) your mind can achieve, and this is actually also backed by a verse in very great book of the bible. - If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for…Matt: 21:22. The power here is FAITH. Our ability to believe even when we still can’t see in the physical what changes and improvements are happening.
Having faith is not only for the spiritual but for each of us wanting to achieve something that is only seen in the mind’s eye or imprinted as desires in our hearts. Faith is what we lean on when we send an application and await an answer, it’s what we lean on as we work on releasing a few kilos, changing some habits, waiting for a loan to be approved and even picking ourselves up time and time again when we fail at something. Faith is the fire that ignites our desires to succeed after the rejections and failures we encounter, it is also the silent cheerleader of our ambitions. It is the force behind quitting not being an option for we see what nobody else can see with our eyes of faith.
With faith there isn’t much you can’t have and achieve if only you trust in the unseen, and be willing to let go of the belief that it has to be visible before it can be done. As a walking testimony I have experienced moments where my faith in things not seen have become my reality and sometimes this is not easy to do considering current circumstances but like with the breath we are taking now where the source is unseen and can’t be touched so is having faith, the source is unseen and cannot be touched.
Faith is also built in the natural law of Cause and Effect in that we believe that whatever we put into something by law we should receive the equivalent, maybe not when or how we expect but surely there will be an outcome. So whatever you are working on but not seeing an end or destination yet in sight keep on going because as the farmer cultivates his land and grows the seeds in the soil the only thing he has is faith that in due time with nurturing the seeds will sprout out of the soil and become the evidence of what he planted.
So my encouragement is don’t lose faith when the challenges appear and expectations go awry, because they will come, promise yourself to stay the course because you might just be at the point of a breakthrough with this current obstacle.
Journal prompt: How strong is my faith in myself and the unseen?