THE DEFINITION OF FAITH

This morning I had an experience that made me realize the definition of faith.

A few weeks ago, my mom and dad offered me a living room chair. Even though it was a comfortable chair, better than the chair we currently had, at first I said no because it was a recliner. Having two cats in the house, I refuse to have a recliner. If you know the nature of cats, they like to get into whatever little private place they can and sit silently. As far as I’m concerned, cats and recliners are a recipe for disaster.

But my dad said no problem, he could fix the chair so that it would no longer recline. I said well, if it doesn’t recline, then sure! So a few days later, he brought over the chair and it is now a nice, comfortable addition to our living room.

(By the way, is anyone interested in the old chair, a pink leather swiveling barrel chair? It’s kind of odd looking, maybe art deco/retro. Free to a good home.)

So this chair has been in the house two or three weeks now, and this morning I sat down in it while eating my bowl of cereal, and it suddenly occured to me that in all this time, I have not once tested out the chair to see whether or not it actually no longer reclines.

My dad said he would fix it, and that was good enough for me. If he said he would fix it, then I knew it was done. In all this time, I have had no trepidation whatsoever about this chair being in my house, and it has only been two or three weeks later that the issue even randomly came into my mind.

And as soon as I thought of it, I thought, “This is the definition of faith.” Your dad says he’s going to do something, and you believe him, and you don’t doubt, and you don’t have to test it out, you just beleive it has been done as he said it was going to be done.

Well, we have a Heavenly Father, don’t we? Who also says He is going to do certain things for us. And when we have faith like we should, we do not doubt, we do not have to test it out, we just believe and live our lives without trepidation.

Wow… The spirituality of chairs.

God is in everything.