I Believe by Sir Lionel Luckhoo

Author:Sir Lionel Luckhoo [Luckhoo, Sir Lionel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-03-12T14:29:28+00:00

What I have been endeavoring to do is to give my humble reasons for acknowledging God and accepting God. These thinkings take me up to a certain point, at which point there is gap before one reaches total acceptance and belief, and that gap can only be bridged by FAITH.

Now what is Faith? It has been described as the very function of man's soul by which he penetrates into the unseen and the unknown, but the concept of Faith which appeals to me is that put forward by St. Paul in the Ephesians when he said Faith is not of ourselves. We cannot stir it up or create it -- it is the gift of God. In like manner Pascal attributes these words as coming from God, "Thou wouldest not be seeking me if thou hadst not already found me." And the same thought is reached by St. Augustine who said God was seeking him long before he sought God.

Faith is the bridge to get to know God. Getting to know God is so very important. Many of our Christians know about God, yet so few know God. We read in Hebrews 11:6 "He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and He is the rewarder of those that diligently seek him."

If we could see God visibly. If we could prove with exactitude that he exists. If we could satisfy all men factually that there is a god e.g. by calling on Him and a great voice answering from the skies. If we could do all of these things, then there would be no place left for Faith. But since we must all pray and ask God for the Grace of Faith, if we really long for God and wish to obey him, then we must pray as the Saints of old "Lord I believe, help thou my unbelief."

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