What is faith? Faith is the substance. What is substance? Substance is something tangible. It’s real. Hope is the beginning of faith. The definition of hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. It is the root that springs forth the faith. We cannot give up and become hopeless. We must remain full of hope.
The evidence of things not seen. Well, that sounds like an oxymoron. Usually, evidence suggests something that is seen. Something that is provable, can be measured, verified, and documented. But here it is saying the evidence is in things that we cannot see. However, we can see it in the spiritual realm. Which is the true reality.
Everything we see around us took faith. Someone had to have faith so we could ride in a car, travel in an airplane, communicate through mobile phones, use electricity, and even make a cake. You have to have faith that when you combine eggs, milk, flour, butter, vanilla extract, sugar, salt and baking powder that the results will be a cake. Even putting the ingredients in the oven takes faith. You didn’t see the cake in the bowl or oven, but you have the expectation that when it is baked there will be a cake. Oh boy, now I want cake. I’ll take chocolate with cherries on top, please.
Set my hope up high
Don’t ever take a dip or trip
Turn it up, turn it up
And infuse that substance
That is lying in wait to rise
It got me all bound up
Like a rattlesnake
Gripping its prey
In a good way
In the right way
I fix my eyes on things unseen
Behind the wall I go
With a good faith
It’s a good thing
I step to the other side
It’s used to shield me
No penetration or domination
I fight the good fight
My battle gear is set
In faith I firmly stand
Poem by TheRedInkSpot