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The Sublime Personal Experience of Faith ~
 
I love these few words out of the text: "rather a sublime experience and a profound conviction." I've found that 'Faith' is 'alive' if you've got it, and an intellectual concept if you don't have it. Faith is a living and growing personal experience I've found you can cultivate, like a garden. Plant some Inner mental/spiritual seeds, along with a nice foundation of a good attitude, and the whole life perspective changes slowly as you refine yourself along the way. It seems that Jesus knew this and started from childhood. He was the perfect example of the highest value -- doing his Father's Will.
 
~ Theology may fix, formulate, define, and dogmatize faith, but in the human life of Jesus faith was personal, living, original, spontaneous, and purely spiritual. This faith was not reverence for tradition nor a mere intellectual belief which he held as a sacred creed, but rather a sublime experience and a profound conviction which securely held him. His faith was so real and all-encompassing that it absolutely swept away any spiritual doubts and effectively destroyed every conflicting desire. Nothing was able to tear him away from the spiritual anchorage of this fervent, sublime, and undaunted faith. Even in the face of apparent defeat or in the throes of disappointment and threatening despair, he calmly stood in the divine presence free from fear and fully conscious of spiritual invincibility. Jesus enjoyed the invigorating assurance of the possession of unflinching faith, and in each of life’s trying situations he unfailingly exhibited an unquestioning loyalty to the Father’s will. And this superb faith was undaunted even by the cruel and crushing threat of an ignominious death.
]]> Bill Bricker