"I LIVE BY FAITH ALONE," START LOVING

"I LIVE BY FAITH ALONE," START LOVING. This is an amazing realization for me this week. "I don't know who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish." -- Marshall McLuhan. For all of my life the word "Faith" was meaningless and uninteresting to me due to its profound perversion (even if unintended) by the "church."

But as I have freed myself, "Saved" myself by surrendering to Jesus and the Almighty I find that Faith is the result, that I have for many months now Lived by Faith Alone! And for my entire adult life I've navigated ALMOST totally by Faith alone, thank God.

Better than I could ever hope to Dietrich Bonhoeffer captured what this Journey of total Faith, what this wonderful, exciting, amazing, Joyful voyage I am on feels like, and what Faith IS:

“Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God – the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God.”

All these are used to the fullest - Reason, Principles, Conscience, Freedom, Head / Mind, Knowledge.... But in Faith they are subordinated to the Almighty - Love / Life / Truth - HEART... for Joy.

"Follow Jesus' word."

Teresa of Calcutta