Struggling Christian: Easter

Sitting in church today I was reflecting on what today means to my life. What does the resurrection do for the way I live; and I realized that today is the reason that I have faith.

Then the phrase "the reason I have faith" kept on repeating over and over and over in my mind throughout church because it seemed very unique. It felt like there were more layers than the one I was intending it to make. The question I asked myself is what does have mean? First I realized that have is a verb that means to posses. Yet how could I possess faith; isn't faith "firm belief in something for which there is no proof."(Merriam-Webster Online) Which by definition would faith be a verb? How can you possess a verb though? I do not think that you can; if there is a verb that you can posses please let me know for my reflection I could not think of one. So since you cannot possess a verb, faith must therefore be noun. A noun is a person, place or thing. Due to elimination we now can assume faith is a thing.

What we understand now is that faith is a thing, by the reasoning that I used above. Look around the room that you are in right now and look at all the objects that are within your line of sight. Which things do you see do not have an intent/purpose. I am looking around my room and there is nothing that does not have a purpose. So if all things that we can think of have a purpose then Faith must have an intent or purpose to its existence. (Another important fact about things is that you can acquire as much of one thing as you so desire, this will be important here in a second)

I look at my life to find out what the purpose of faith is. So I go back to the second sentence that I said above "what does the resurrection do for the way I live..." Faith has a direct correlation to the way I live. Why do I live this way? I live this way for the knowledge that I have obtained, the people that I associate with, and the experiences that I have had. Faith therefore is the acquisition of all of these things to help me decide which actions I should do or not to do.

Does faith only correlate to a Supreme Being? If my knowledge told me that riding in a plane was not safe, if I had and experience with a malfunction on a plane, and I had someone close to me die in a plane crash; then I would have faith in staying on the ground and not go into a plane. So all action is correlated to faith, and if all action is correlated to faith then everybody, does everything, due to what they believe and who or what they put faith in.

Back to my faith, the more I learn, the more I surround myself with Christians, and the more experiences that I have with the power of God then the more I will "live a life worthy of the calling I have received." (Ephesians 4:1) I am just extremely grateful for the gift of grace I was given through an event almost 2000 years ago.