Have you ever tried to complete a connect-the-dots puzzle? On the more complicated ones, it is really hard to see the big picture when all you really see are just a whole lot of very tiny dots that you have to somehow connect to show a picture. There is a part of you that knows it will make a picture, however, it can be difficult to believe what the picture actually will look like. The question can come up that, what if I don’t like the picture after I’ve connected the dots?
I’ve begun to think that faith is like that, sometimes. I recently saw a quote from Martin Luther King, Jr about faith in which he states, “Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.” When you take something on faith, then you have to trust that there is a purpose in the path that you are taking. In Dr. King’s statement, you know that the staircase will lead you to a better, or different, place but you don’t quite know what that place will look like or even what you will see when you get there. That can lead us to the fear portion when it comes to having faith.
Fear can keep us from going up that staircase and possibly discovering something that could make a wonderful change within us. Fear keeps us from seeing the big picture and only lets us see each little dot. That is how it feels to me, as well! I had recently made a career change and it was huge. I am definitely someone who likes to see the whole picture and I really, really like to know where I am going. So, taking a leap of faith was a very scary thing for me, especially when I didn’t know where I was going to land! I’m sure that that is true for others as well. The only thing that has kept me going up those stairs, is my trust in God!
Why?
I don’t know what is up those stairs and I can’t see the whole picture……….. at least not yet. However, I have to have faith that I will know and I will see. It might not be right now, but someday, I know, that I will be able to look back and see that big picture in the future. That is what having faith is all about.
So, what did I learn from this? Having faith is and can be a constant battle. The devil wants us to fear. I know that God is THE LIGHT and aren’t we always going toward the light? The light allows us to see what’s around us. Finding joy is about having faith that things will turn out okay in the long run even when you can’t see where the stairs lead or see the whole picture.
What can you gain from this? Look back on your life and the things that you’ve done. I’ll just bet that you will begin to be able to start seeing the whole picture as well. Ask yourself this, was your journey based on your own accomplishments or was it based on your faith that helped you to accomplish something?
A Joyful Mission 
The staircase is quite the faith tester of anxiety I agree, as I am even afraid of falling. If someone builds a first step we can try to tell ourselves they finished the staircase. A large portion of what hinders faith is going to be the unknown and death.
Which one could be worse? They can be tragic. Yet we are old enough that we have experience on the topics, teachings, thoughts, studies, and information. We continue and we have as yesterday seen today. But on the more sure side… The unknown and seeking it has led us to improve ourselves and our home so that we are safer instead of in more danger, and death when we examine it rationally we can believe is an illusion, yet we fear it due to the unknown.
We know our creator began life immortal, and use their own body to create us, and a good tree bears good fruit. There is a piece of what we creations are that is still immortal, we were never meant to truly die because we are the creators investment. An example is someone does not spend their entire life to earn having a million dollars in the bank only to press a delete button at the bank and lose it all. For our faith to grow we should not believe their is any permanent death, and should we fear anything it should be loss of love, for that is truly a degradation upon our family that is actually tangible. Even if someone tried to die, they would more than likely survive in some mysterious and magical way, it has been explained as souls and afterlifes, or it could be percieved as our creator started immortal and the piece of that immortality cannot be weathered, it is more pure than surroundings. Our creator has survived this Nothing that now became a something this home of outer and inner space. Our creator is wise and wealthy, a person such as that keeps investments.
Doubting death leads to faith being in safety. Believing the unknown is actually an improvement leads to faith being in safety. The safer we allow our faith to be, the more it can grow.
I hope I cheered you up with this comment, as a return since you very much cheered me up. Have a good night.
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