Tag: belief

2015.07.03: faith and reason

Jesus said to him, “Have you come to believe because you have seen me. Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.” – Jn 20:29

some will never believe
that life evolved over millions of years
to its present day forms
no matter how many fossils are dug up
or how large the bones of the creatures
that dominated the earth so many years ago

some will never believe
everything visible and invisible
all the complexities
that science still can’t explain
came from one big bang

some will never believe
that life is more than what happens before we die
that the memories and experiences
end at the doorway of death
that concepts like truth, love, mercy and justice
matters not when the funeral bell tolls

some will never believe
that death is only a gateway not the end all
that a man died and rose again
that he came to show us the way
the truth and the life

some are believers
some are doubters
some believe in faith
some believe in reason
i believe in both
faith and reason
two wings on the same bird
a flight of transcendence

2015.04.14: motive

“And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” Jn 3:14-15

whether a belief is actuated

feverishly out of fear from the mind

perfunctorily as a duty on the lips

or laboriously from the loving heart

each will be rewarded accordingly

2015.03.09: choose life

Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: “Amen, I say to you,no prophet is accepted in his own native place.”- Lk 4:24

The greatest effect of a miracle is not the impressiveness of the deed nor its inexplicability but rather the transformation of nonbelief into belief. For nonbelievers no deed will be great enough to effect this change, but for believers every ordinary event is a miracle to be witnessed with joy. Jesus said in John 10:10, “I came to that they (the believers of the good news which he proclaimed) may have life and have it abundantly.”

Whether or not i see it,
the sun will rise and the sun will set.
Whether or not i understand it,
the Truth will be the Truth
Whether or not i feel it,
Love will be Love
Whether or not i believe in his existence,
God will be God.
It is a matter of choice.
I choose belief.
I choose life.