Faith–What Is That?

Christ
“went on to tell them
an illustration

about the need for them
always to pray

and
not to give up”.
Luke 18:1.

***

Do I really only believe
in what I see

when every breath taken
is
invisible
to me;

as I walk or sit
daily
underneath lively trees

totally enjoying
a soothing sightless breeze

slowing down

inside my breast cavity
not seen by my friends

or
myself

its activity–

a heart beat
rapid
due to anxiety

causing my blood to flow
in precious arteries

suddenly
less urgent,
more gently?

I have

faith

that these
exist

for do I not
active
before you

insist

that these functions
in you

also

invisibly
persist?

***

“Faith

is the assured expectation
of what is hoped for,

the evident demonstration

of realities

that are not seen.”
Heb. 11:1.

***

“When the Son of man arrives,
will he really find this faith on the earth?”
Luke 18:8.

Jesus “also told this illustration to some who trusted in their own righteousness and who considered others as nothing:

“Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

The Pharisee stood and began to pray these things to himself,

‘O God, I thank you that I am not like everyone else—extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

I fast twice a week; I give the tenth of all things I acquire.’

But the tax collector, standing at a distance, was not willing even to raise his eyes heavenward but kept beating his chest, saying,

‘O God, be gracious to me, a sinner.’

I tell you, this man went down to his home and was proved more righteous than that Pharisee.

Because everyone who exalts himself will be humiliated, but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”” Luke 18:9-14.

Photo credit: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fglennsreflections.com%2Findex.php%2F2021%2F04%2F01%2Fthe-pharisee-and-the-tax-collector%2F&psig=AOvVaw16JaKy05L32SPSR8X-D801&ust=1675259278895000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CA8QjRxqFwoTCNjCubD58fwCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAI© 13 mins ago, Lucretia McCloud    hope • love • teen • society • sad • spiritual