The Goal of Faith

The lack of faith is the root cause of disobedience or sin. Faith is both belief and trust but it is also much more. Our belief in the truth of an idea comes from our thinking mind, trust is from our emotional centre; our heart. Our deep centre, our heart is the wellspring of our faith. Faith is the positive commitment of our “I”. More important to belief in the idea and knowledge of God, is to trust and know God, the person. Faith is trustfulness and fidelity and we can only have these with a person. You cannot trust an idea or be unfaithful to an idea or commit infidelity with an idea. We can have all the knowledge and truths in the world about God, but if we do not have a relationship based on trust (no knowing of God in our hearts) with God, we have nothing. If we have trust in God (Knowing of God in our heart) and just grain of knowledge and truth of God we still have everything.  So the goal of faith is not truths about God but God himself who is truth.