Definition Essay: Do We Have Faith?

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Proverbs 31:25 says, "She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come." (NIV, Proverbs 31:25) This woman displays trust in God with her plans and has no need to worry about the days to come. Life can be scary, and hard to understand, but only God can control what will happen next. All you can do is have faith. To have faith you must trust someone or something and believe in it. When we sit down in a chair, we do not stare at it and think about whether it is going to hold us or not, we just plop down in the seat. That demonstrates faith, sitting in that chair without contemplating it, you have faith that it will hold you up. Dictionary.com defines faith as, “confidence or trust in a person or thing, and belief that is not based on proof.” Faith means having trust and believing in something that will help you as you go through life, and not worrying about the future. …show more content…

When you have faith, you do not have to worry, but as humans we do. Having faith speaks of confidence, trust, hope, loyalty, and belief. You cannot say you have faith in someone, then go and say that you do not trust them. It is easy to have faith in the small things, and the easy things, but that is not what faith is. Faith is not saying you believe in something that you cannot trust. You just become unfaithful, disloyal, and mistrust to the person or thing that you try, but fail, to have faith in. Faith does not mean disloyalty, unfaithfulness, and mistrust, for faith means you have to choose whether you can trust it or

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