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Have Faith and Success Will Follow

Posted on October 30, 2006

I have often wondered about blind faith versus just having faith when it comes to living a successful life or getting what you want from life. When I started my self-help journey, I was all about what I could do for myself I had to have faith in my abilities. Then through natural progression my journey took a more spiritual path and I had to have faith in myself and in something bigger than me. Looking around me I see people on the same journey that simply have blind faith. They believe that through some cosmic twist of faith (pardon the pun) things they want will drop out of nowhere without any effort on their part. Are they on to something or are they just not putting in an effort?

A quote I often come across in my reading states “You cannot enter heaven unless you have the faith of a child.” Is it possible to have faith of a child when you have experienced life as an adult? Reality check here, a child will jump, get hurt and never do it again (okay, that is in most cases). But you can’t argue with playing with fire thing, they do it once, get burned and never do it again. So that takes care of that “child” theory.

Blind Faith is defined as “belief without true understanding, perception, or discrimination.” What does blind faith ask of you? Do you forgo common sense, hard work and planning and just have faith that everything will work out for you? Blind faith is a gamble. Will the outcome be good or bad? Or do you just take blind faith as an explanation for what why things happen in life?

Having just plain faith is finding a path from reviewed options, creating an action plan, using your intuition, praying and visualizing all possible outcomes you can think of, then taking a step and trusting that this path you have chosen is the right path. You trust this path because you have done the necessary work. You trust your decision and take full responsibility for your actions.

What I am trying to say is that you don’t just use blind faith to succeed in anything you do. What you need is a combination of faith, prayer, free will, intuition, knowledge, experience and more to succeed in life. Remember “… helps those who help themselves.”

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