Good morning/evening and welcome. I would like to talk to you about faith this morning/evening. As many of you know, faith, as described by Webster is a “Complete confidence in a person or plan.” Faith is more than just a vague belief in a God or a person or thing. Faith is personal. It can make the difference between succeeding or failing in a project, family planning, a trip around the world, being able to sing in front of a thousand people, etc.
Faith is some thing I know some thing about. Faith brought me and my family to Canada. Faith from the time I was in high school until a few years ago, fulfilled a dream that I would be ordained as a representative of God here in this world. And on January 10th 2009 I was ordained by the Spiritualist Church of Canada, one of two Canadian Spiritualist Associations chartered in Ottawa, Canada.
Some may ask, “Why did I think that I would ever be ordained? Well, I can only say that it was faith that God in His infinite wisdom knew that it would take me that long to over come a several childhood problems, in order that I could be one of His representatives here.
Friends, God is the source of all faith and it is that kind of faith in Him that makes the difference between success and failure in this world. Never underestimate the will of God. If you are to be a housewife, father, business man/woman, engineer or even a bum on the corner, God has work for you and me and it is our duty to have faith that He will help us achieve our goals.
Some would say that we planned this life while on the spirit side and what we could achieve to the smallest detail to the largest. If this were so, why would we need to come here since we would have already experienced our lessons beforehand? If we truly believe that we only planned the lessons that we needed to learn in this life time, then it would be up to us to make the decisions necessary to achieve those lessons in this life time. Freedom of choice then, allows us to work towards learning our lessons or doing something entirely different. Free will allows us to make those kinds of decisions.
Some would say that this is “all hogwash” and is further from the truth than anything that they could possibly believe.” I agree. We are here to serve our fellow man. Serving as a son, daughter, owner of a company, salesman, engineer, or in what ever capacity we are trained and able to perform.
I have been reading about life in the Spirit World. In the Spirit World people work in a state of total love serving each other and those who are here in this physical world. It is a real privilege for us to serve. On earth, we receive payment in the form of money or goods. We share our wealth with our family members and others. We are constantly sharing. How could it be otherwise? We learn from the multitude of experiences we have daily. If we didn’t have these experiences, life would be dull and without any kind of challenge. We need to be challenged in order that new products and services can be developed. These things make life worth while. They provide us with a reason for living. When we lose our reason for living, we then think about leaving this world.
It is even a known fact that when men and women retire, if they don’t have hobbies or are involved in serving others, they may only live for a few months or years. Even our health depends on whether or not we have a reason to live.
SO how does all of the above relate to faith? Faith gives us reasons to live. Faith gives us the desire to develop the methods and steps that are necessary in the development of ourselves, new products and services to others.
Faith is what is needed to accomplish our goals and reasons for living.
