A Loss of Faith equals an Empty Soul!

To those who have no more concern for any form of faith whether in the Church or God, the understanding of their soul is farthest from them.

Who are these one-time believers of God that have collapsed beneath the worldly pressures of self-advocacy? The answer to this can be found in a void called humanism, the very opposite of divine beliefs. None of us were born with the human knowledge of God, but the essence of the creator certainly can be found by the manner that we know the difference between right and wrong. Watch children at play and view how one will hold onto a toy from another child somehow not wanting to share. Then, watching the way another child will willingly hand over what is theirs to their friend. Both of these incidents are inborn attributes that are not necessarily taught but a sign of something we all have as an unconscious stirring as we mature.

It takes many years for some to realize we are not alone on this planet and there are consequences that will confound us if we hold onto selfishness that only produces our personal pleasures. When a child sees that holding onto a toy from another’s desire for it creates a block between them will in time relent and give it over as a peace offering. That is a basic premise most adults may experience with their friends and unreservedly give in to avoid a separation.

This along with many opportunities to share ourselves with those we expect to follow the same pattern, find that we are not alone in life, and that is the same opportunity that God expects from us as we mature in sound principles in society.

That brings us to the fact of faith that is a gift from God but only when we treat it with the

nourishment of grace. One leans on the other and unless we adhere to the closeness of God’s connection within our spirit we can lose this mysterious entity called faith and slip into an empty reality of our soul which is God’s very connection within each of us.

God has placed a part of himself within the essential being of each person by our souls. Here is the totality of God’s presence around us and in us by our souls. While we live on this earth we have our sustenance through our soul. At death, it is our soul (spirit) that exits the human flesh that identifies our existence and our earthly body enters into the dust of the earth.

If we were able to hold onto that faith our soul will have become the life we live in. Without faith the soul becomes an empty vessel that searches for an identity which is God.

Having faith as many may adhere to, without really absorbing its entity is the same as saying we know about God, but do not know him. The old cliche that you don’t really know your spouse until you live with him/her is a good way to describe understanding God. Once we begin to really know God then the essence of our soul becomes the reality of our faith. Without faith the realization of our soul, which is God within us becomes a quest in futility. If we say we don’t need faith, then we have lost our spiritual connection to our soul and God!

Ralph B. Hathaway