I recently registered on Quora, a website then enables people to ask questions which then anyone can answer. One question, which I answered, was:
What should I do to help people to have a faith in God? Quora
This question is flawed on various levels:
1. It rests on a premise that will always lead to failure. We cannot help others in their levels of faith, in God or otherwise. This is purely an individual path that must be self-directed and self-actuated. Faith can only exist when we have sufficient experience to transform our mere knowledge of faith into truth. We can talk about faith all we like but it will never become our truth until our experience gives some inkling of its validity.
I lived with a religious convert and I can say from experience, whilst their enthusiasm and joy in their newfound insight and experience is to be celebrated, their enthusiasm can easily eclipse their understanding and their sharing readily dissolves into a continual flood of empty words of which they have no direct knowledge. Then it just becomes annoying and has the opposite effect of that which was intended.
2. Further, we have absolutely no understanding of what is right for another. Their path is just that: their path. It is for them to seek truth in their own time and in their own way. What others think is irrelevant.
3. We don’t need to “do” anything. Just by living to our highest sense of love, truth, peace and beauty we embody all the qualities of our essence and true nature, which logically must have their source in our Creator, or the Creative Principle that creates all life. Then others are not only able to observe who we are and the life that is available to us because of our fidelity to love and truth, but through living our truth we raise our energy vibration such that others can “feel” the love. People are naturally attracted to love, because it is our essence, and eventually, when they are ready, they will begin to ask the questions to lead them to a similar state.
4. The aim is not to have faith in God. God doesn’t need it, and is totally unconcerned either way. It’s like talking about having faith in the sun. The sun just shines on, regardless of what we mere mortals think or do. What is more important is having faith in ourselves. Our link to our Creator is intact and cannot be destroyed but it doesn’t always feel that way. The distraction, temptation and pull of the physical world can lead us to believe that we are separate and isolated entities hopelessly stranded in a world without true power or support. We forget that, in reality, we are a spark of the Divine and we are free to harness all the power and dominion that naturally entails.
