By Gavin Boyle
We all have faith in something, whether or not we realize it. So why is it so hard to put our faith in God? Former NFL player Andrew East recently tackled this question.
“Why do we believe when we can’t prove it…when you can’t tangibly know that it’s real? Right? That’s kind of the argument. There is no way you can actually know that there’s a heaven, and, you know, it’s all to a certain extent a little ambiguous…” East said during a recent episode of his and his wife, Olympian Shawn Johnson’s, podcast.
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“[There is] this trust in social interactions where I don’t have to necessarily verify everything that you say, or when someone pays me a dollar, I don’t have to check every single dollar for it not being fraud…There’s all of these inherent levels of faith that we have…” East continued. “There is [faith] which you need in order to, like, not be locked in your room, a conspiracy theorist questioning everything and you’re not functional because you can’t go out and drive because you don’t trust that anybody else can drive well. Or you don’t use money because you don’t trust the whole system.”
While many fear centering their lives around faith, they ironically already do so by trusting the many systems that allow our society to function. Furthermore, the Lord makes Himself known to those who seek after Him, and time and time again, when those who did not believe in Him came into contact with His power, they still did not believe.
“The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested Him by asking Him to show them a sign from heaven,” reads John 16:1. This demand for a sign came after the religious leaders witnessed dozens of miracles that caused many others to give their life to Christ. Thus, witnessing miracles and the power of God does not always mean that someone will believe — rather it takes faith in the Lord in order for a person to give their life to Him.
Most people who refuse to have faith in God do so because they don’t want to change how they are living for something that they can never fully know is true and may result in disdain from their peers.
“That’s nothing new, you know? That’s the way it is — nothing new,” actor Chris Pratt previously said, adding of Jesus Christ: “Two thousand years ago, they hated him too. If I was of this world, they would love me just like that but as it is, I’ve chosen out of this world. That’s John 15:18 through 20.”
While having faith and holding on to it through the ups and down of life is not easy, it is helpful to realize that we all live by faith already, and trusting the Lord allows us to ground ourselves the only thing that does not change.
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