Faith."Faith has such might because next to love it is the force most inherent in one's own awareness" (Helen Keller).

Image by Dead Air via FlickrFaith."Faith has such might because next to love it is the force most inherent in one's own awareness" (Helen Keller).




"A simple child like faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea. Faith teaches us to use our talent to the fullest extent" (Helen Keller).



"Faith... directs to the light when darkness prevails it supplies incentive to action and converts ideas into realities. It fires the imagination, and that is essential, for one must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold" (Helen Keller).



"Through faith I create the world I gaze upon, I make my own day and night" (Helen Keller).



"We are finding that god is not an antique myth; rather, belief in God is the best way we know for relating to the mystery and the paradox that lie at the very heart of life. For when all is said and done, when we reach the outer limit of reason and is said and done, when we reach the outer limit of reason and knowledge, by God's grace, the gaps in our understanding are filled with faith, with hope and, at last, even with love" (Charles P. Henderson, Jor., The Christian Century).



A component of earth's training is that there must be a concentrated effort by the student and development of his earthly character through practice at coping with difficult conditions (e.g. P.E., Sports, Studying, Tests, etc.). This allows us to be disciplined (in control of ourselves), in order to accomplish earthly things.



(Job 2: 9-10)His wife said to him: "You are still as faithful as ever, aren't you? Why don't you curse God and die?"



Job answered, "You are talking nonsense! When God sends us something good we welcome it, How can we complain when he sends us trouble?" Even in tall this suffering Job said nothing to God.



God allows people to be tested and endure hardships, but his love for them never diminishes. In the end he is glorified, and they are made more mature.



The Bible is certainly not oblivious to difficulty. But it is critical that we begin to understand Scripture's message that difficulty and joy are not exclusive entities, but mutual friends....



Most of the greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers of all time had to pass through the fire. Bunyan wrote "Pilgrim's Progress" from jail. Florence Nightingale, too ill to move from her bed, reorganized the hospitals of England. Semi-paralyzed and under the constant menace of apoplexy, Pasteur was tireless in his attack on disease. During the greater part of his life, American historian Frances Parkman suffered so acutely that he could not work for more than five minutes at a time. His eyesight was so wretched that he could scrawl only a few gigantic words on a manuscript, yet he contrived to write twenty magnificent volumes of history. Sometimes it seems that when God is about to make preeminent use of a man, he puts him through the fire.



Many people live as though they regret God's incredible invitation to life. Avoiding pain becomes their chief occupation. And few of them realize that avoidance of difficulty only produces more pain in the long run.



(From You Gotta Keep Dancin' by Tim Hansel)



Don't get angry at God. Use problems to strengthen your character and to bring glory to God.