Narrative †My Foolish Faith :: Personal Narrative Essays

Narrative My Foolish FaithLife without hope in a dull, frustrating world congeals the deflect of human existence...almost. To some, born-lived-died is more than the plot of too many bad novels it dooms them, chaining their lives to a Maslowian fate. Others drown the raw truth in unrelenting labor, raucous revelry, sunlit resound breezes, cigarettes at noontime, or the bottle. Yet some start out hope in this droll, frustrating world, but they will not agree and cannot be sure of that hope. Or can they?Once I could not find hope. I still cant. Thats why I leaped for joy when it found me instead. Somehow, by the Grace of graven image, I find myself with the still, single true hope, a nonsensical faith, a belief I cannot prove with mortal things, a book that turns a hopeless, droll, frustrating world into a beautiful, hopeful, droll, frustrating world where smallest intricacies and biggest setbacks bring joy alike.Did I say my faith makes no sense? I was right. No sane person in hi s violate mind would agree to a divine Creator, Revealer, Saviour, Lord, and Friend. Unfortunately, human depravity ensures sane human wrong-mindedness.Once one obtains this hope, the difficulty of Christianity shifts from the foolishness of believing myths to the stupidity of doing what they say. This is my challenge, for God has revealed His will plainly and has promised to help His adopted children understand His Word, the Bible. Once a person agrees to accept the entire Bible as God presents it in the Bible, the tribulation of faith (or mere hope) comes. A mere hoper wont bother (or dare) to keep exactly what God says a person with true faith will not only try but succeed when he does.Because I have faith in Christ, have escaped the corruption that is in the world, am a partaker of the Divine Nature, and have received many great and precious promises from God Himself, my goal in sustenance is to be diligent in my service of righteousness to God. The society we live in, like any that has seen the noonday sun since the day God spoke it into existence, is utterly depraved, and I am too. It is God himself in my life who works anything in my life that may seem to be faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity. Yet there is a war in my life, a war I am very grateful for yet very weary of.