We can believe in Christ, even though His abilities are beyond our understanding of Christ.

Who understands completely how all the different parts of the world work?  Any one person?  Like computers – who understands all the different parts of the world of computers?  Yet, so many of us use them constantly.

How many of us understand all the theories of physics or chemistry or astronomy and meteorology, medicine, architecture, engineering, music, etc?  Yet we’re involved with all these expecting “someone” to understand it enough to make it work for us.

Why do we then choose to not believe in Christ, in God, or in ourselves simply because we don’t understand?  Christ understands Christ.  God understands God.

Because we want to believe in something we can touch, or see?  What if we step out past our limits and we’re wrong?   To believe in the unseen is to step out past our own confidence.

We find that we had been holding onto a very small world if we step out past our own understanding, because our own understanding is small compared to what is out there waiting to be learned and/or understood.

Believing in something higher than ourselves means also believing that we can love more.  It means that we can care more.  It means that we can forgive more.   Who among us doesn’t know that we have a greater the capacity to love and forgive more than we’ve already done?

Many think believing is of the mind, but I say believing is of the heart – where love, caring, and forgiveness live.  The heart is where God lives.

Because in moments of loving, of forgiving, of being patient or kind, or supportive, or encouraging, or merciful, we’re adding God to people’s lives for that moment. God exists in these acts when they come from our heart.  All acts of love, bring God into the world during that moment of love.  Where God is, Love is.  Where Love is, God is.  They cannot be separated.  One doesn’t exist in any moment without the other.

Still, we don’t always recognize this to be true.  We can sometimes recognize love to be present in that moment, but rarely do we think God to be present at the same time, as well.

The next time you want to have an experience of God, Love someone.  God shows up when we love.

Everything we do and think and say and feel and…., has its effect upon our own life and our world . . . which then has an effect upon others . . . which then affects others, and on and on.  This means that our whole life has an effect upon everyone else, no matter how isolated we are or involved we are.

The effort that we put into living our own life makes its impression on the world.  This is what others will see and learn.  This is what we give to the world, not just when we leave, but while we’re here.  It will just be easier to acknowledge when we look back on our life after we’ve left and see what we have given to the world.

We’ve lived our lives one day at a time and each day we’ve given something – either good or bad.  And it all then adds up to equal “One Life”.  Our whole life, made up of “one day at a time” days is our whole legacy.   Even if we ignore any effort, care nothing about anyone, think only of our self, and add pain and sorrow to others lives – this is our legacy to the world while we live in the world and after we’ve left it.

Or if we put forth effort to help when we can, give comfort, be patient, forgive, love, show mercy, seek to understand others, try kindness, seek joy, share, and many other qualities which show forth a spirit of unity among each other, – we can leave a legacy of effort, of trying, of willingness to give something better.

Maybe we can find a way to “Leave the world a better place than when we came into it.”

(Did you notice I didn’t say anything about living a “perfect” life?  Think of the perfect life as a “house built with a room for everything”, including a room for improvement.)

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unless we want one step to be all that we ever take.

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we can stop by the roadside and listen to Jesus teach.

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Lord, help us who have these failings -

the same failings that are inside me, even now.

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Love is the word they say.

For others, though,

Love is the action they take.

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Having no faith has never been God’s answer to a problem.

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