conviction of things not seen." Some things you simply "have to take on faith." There are times when we dont have or cant have all the data we need in advance. Acting on faith means we act contrary to facts or contrary to evidence. But acting on faith does mean acting without knowing how everything is going to turn out. "Faith means saying yes to God without knowing all it involves." Faith is always in a struggle with "non faith". African impala can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance of greater than 30 feet. [www.africanimpala.com]. Yet these magnificent creatures can be kept in an enclosure in any zoo with a 3-foot wall. The animals will not jump if they cannot see where their feet will fall.Faith is the ability to act without having all of the answers in hand. Faith is trusting in what we cannot see. It is through faith we are freed from the flimsy enclosures of life that hold us back, that block us from God and neighbor. Faith is living BECAUSE of God and IN SPITE of evil. Faith is trustfully jumping with God, even when we cannot see where our feet will land.The form faith takes, as action is discipleship. Discipleship is based on a Greek word meaning instruction. [Rogets The New Thesaurus]. A disciple is one instructed, literally one who is instructed by following the instructor, listening to him, obeying him, doing as he is instructed. Faith is the act of following after the one call the Master, the teacher of all teachers, the way, the truth, and the life.Faith is a journey. The first person in the Bible to be exalted as a man of faith is a man who took a journey because God told him to do so. After the Hebrews were freed from slavery in Egypt, they began the journey to the Promised Land. And it took them 40 years to get there because they vacillated between faith and unfaith. Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, they had the ruby slippers of faith with them the whole time, but they just couldnt click them together...
