Words have impact. The way you say words has impact. We have to be careful how we use words. Yet words can’t be seen. They can be heard but they can’t be seen.
Faith can’t be seen, it can’t be heard, but it has impact. Faith has tremendous impact on who you are and how you live your life. Faith has sometimes been described as: that which believes in the unseen, that which believes beyond the scope of our senses.
Now, our senses are: sight, smell, touch, all the things that interact with the world and the elemental forces around us. I’m sure you’ve all heard of ESP, Extra Sensory Perception, and that’s the ability to have senses that perceive beyond the elemental. So, some people can perceive your mood just by being with you, some people can perceive your intentions just by being with you, some people can perceive things that don’t seem to be perceivable by other people.
So, if somebody has faith in the qualities of God, and in the existence of God, and that person perceives those qualities and understands the impact and the effect of those qualities, and viscerally feels those qualities and is able to convey them; that doesn’t mean that somebody who doesn’t feel them and who doesn’t perceive them has an accurate picture of reality. But it doesn’t stop them from expounding their picture of reality, and it doesn’t stop them from imposing their vision or picture of reality on you. Everybody is locked in to the extent of their perception, and everybody believes that the extent of their perception is as far as perception goes.
Now, one of the things that is involved in becoming a believer is that you give up this notion that your perception is as far as perception goes, and you enter into a belief system that there’s more to know than you know. And that, through certain actions, practices and perseverance you can come to know more than you know.
One of the first things that has to happen in order to be able to step into this way of understanding things is we have to give up arrogance. Arrogance is a word; it has a meaning, it can be defined, but arrogance is a state of mind, arrogance is an attitude, arrogance is a way of being and it’s a way of being that separates people, and puts the people with arrogance on a different level than everybody they know…
