Does Faith Need A Reason?

I don’t know why I believe. Most times the things I believe in don’t make sense.

I believe things will happen based on no material evidence; I even believe massive positive changes will occur when clear evidence is there but pointing to the opposite.

This makes me crazy. Or at least blind to reality…that’s what they say.

I’m living a fantasy and reality will hit me soon.

Real faith, they say, is based on tangible and noticeable facts to support it. In other words, faith needs a reason to exist. Does it really?

Does faith need a reason to be?

If there were reasons for it to exist, wouldn’t that mean it wasn’t faith anymore? Wouldn’t that make it a fact? So when someone tells me they’re going to arrive at BWI Airport 11:00am, has it happened yet? No, I’m going on their word that they will show up on time.

I’m going on the flight schedules and assuming no delays or cancellations will occur. Perhaps the person might change plans and take a later flight, call me later. Or the worst…the plane might crash, God forbid.

These are all factors that could change the outcome of the person arriving at 11:00am at BWI Airport. So when someone tells me they’re going to be there around that time, I assume that these mishaps will not occur and trusting that they will arrive on time.

During this period, it’s only speculation that they will actually arrive on time. Until they do, I believe they will be there when they say they will. I have faith.

What happens when they arrive on time?

I don’t have to trust they will be there anymore, they just are. No one has to believe what they already see in front of them. It’s already a fact.

Yet it takes faith to believe for what is supposed to happen but hasn’t yet, or what is hoped to happen but hasn’t happened yet. Now we have to trust that everything will work out alright.

Real faith.

It doesn’t need a reason to exist and as long as it doesn’t…I will continue to look crazy until I get the things hoped for through faith.