AnIllustration of Living By Faith in Real Life
A 10-year-old boy shot and killed his
mother on November 21, 2022. The boy allegedly claimed
that he took the gun from his mother’s bedroom down to the basement, where his
mother was doing her laundry. Initially, he claimed that he was twirling the
gun around his fingers when it went off and “accidentally” killed his mother.
But, according to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the boy later
confessed that he carried out the heinous act out of his irrational anger
after his mother refused to buy him a VR headset. Members of his family further
revealed the 10-year-old boy’s many previous episodes of erratic anger and rage
issues, such as setting fire at home and causing explosion when his demands
were rejected by his mother.
Even while being interrogated
by the FBI, the boy surprisingly asked if his VR headset had arrived or not—the
one that he ordered from Amazon the day after killing his mother.
Without faith, the 10-year-old boy just loved things more than people,
including his own mother.
The Bottom Line
Living by faith, you believe in God
who can do anything and everything for you in your everyday life and living.
Living by faith, you love God and people more than you love
things in your life.
Learning
In your development phase, you begin learning about things and people
around you. You learn mostly from your loved ones. Your mind begins to develop
with thoughts based on your own perceptions and experiences.
At school, you learn to read, to count,
and to socialize. They all play a role in your faith in God: reading helps you
read bible stories; counting enables you to count your gifts and blessings from
God; and socializing makes you share your faith with others.
Your learning should be extensive and
inclusive. You may have your own preference but no rejection because you need
comprehensive knowledge to understand and make sense out of the complex and
complicated world. Understanding that God is in control of everything is the
beginning of your faith, which gives you love.
The Bottom Line
Living by faith, you begin your
first step to reach out to God to help you with your learning throughout your
life.
Doing
In addition to learning, your life is also
about doing—doing this and doing that throughout your lifespan. Your
doing begins as early as in your development phase. Learning gives you the
knowledge and the information, but you need to know how to apply them to
your daily living through your own doing.
With faith, you learn that success and
failure are both sides of the same coin, and that you do what you need to do.
With trust, you do your best. With obedience, you let God do the rest.
Without faith, an individual may begin
doing anything, whether right or wrong, just to give him or her joy and
pleasure.
The Bottom Line
Living by faith, you hear God’s divine instructions in your daily doing or undoing. You do your best and God will do the rest for you.
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