Faith is a funny thing

"Faith" has become a pretty generic term. When I refer to my faith, I'm referring to my personal relationship with Jesus Christ. But faith can be in anyone or anything. I might have faith that my favorite football team will turn around their losing streak. The stock market has lost faith with their investors (or the faith OF their investors). My faith in the odds of air travel might keep me getting on airplanes to travel (although that faith has been shaken a little lately). President Obama refers to himself as "a man of faith" but it would seem that no one's quite sure what faith that might be. Faith has been reduced to a personal proclivity or opinion.

But when those "faiths" have nothing behind them, it's very difficult to be "faithful" to them. Ravi Zacharias, in his book Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message, makes this statement:

None of us live comfortably with a vacuous faith. There ought to be both substance to our faith and an object of our faith.

I want a substance to my faith. If God is not big enough to place my faith in, then He's simply not big enough. Here's some definitions of faith that I like:

"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."
Hebrews 11:1

"...a secure belief in God and a trusting acceptance of God's will."
-dictionary.com

"Faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is."
-Ravi Zacharias