Faith Is.......

Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality--faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses].
HEBREWS 11:1 AMP

Faith is herein defined in 2 very similar yet vivid ways, and our hearts will do well to consider, review and assimilate these definitions. First, faith is defined as an assurance of things hoped for. Your assurance about something is based on your confidence in the One who can give those things to you. If I get a promise of cash from someone who is struggling to settle his bills, I may think twice about believing the promise. When it is God promising, he is staking his life, nature and reputation, and he is guaranteeing that he is faithful enough to keep his promises.

Secondly, Faith is seen as evidence of things not seen. Our physical senses help us define our human experiences, but we make the mistake of trying to define God by those same senses. We assume we can place God in a box, and explain away his actions, words and intentions through the narrow prism of our natural senses. Samuel was anointed, yet the physical appearance of Eliab, Jesse's firstborn, deceived him into thinking he could be king. You cannot run with God, relying on your physical senses. You have got to trust God more than you see him. When  all you know about God is what you have proven by senses, or you have only seen him do, then your experience of God is limited. When God says he's preparing a place for us, how would the physical senses comprehend that? When God promises us a new, immortal body, how would the physical senses provide an explanation on how it will work?

This walk is a walk of faith, and all I will get, hear, see or do will be hinged on my walk of faith with God. Is there anything proving difficult to handle? God says I should believe him for solutions. Is there a mountain proving difficult? God says that Faith can relocate that mountain. God, teach me to hold on to you, even when everything is falling apart. His time of favour is here.