APPLIED FAITH...

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With faith you can move mountains. Do you believe in faith? well I do. My dad always use to say " you can do it if you believe you can" . Those words means a lot to me and have gotten me through a lot of things in my life. I hope it does for you too who is reading...

Here is a short story which I would like to pass on to you. A man was driving from Accra to Tema, rolling along just fine until his car stopped dead. He tried the starter repeatedly, but not a cylinder would fire. Being a businessman and no mechanic, he didn't know the first thing about the mechanics of his car. But he got out, lifted the hood and looked in rapt amazement at the confusing array of gadgets which greeted his eyes. Angered by his won mechanical ignorance, he slammed down the hood, locked the car and stared down the highway to find a mechanic.

From nearly three miles he trudged along in the hot sun and arrived at a shop in a good sweat. The mechanic drove him back to his stalled car. Now when the mechanic lifted the hood, he knew what to look for and he loosened a nut on the side of the carburetor, took out a tiny screen, held it up to the sunlight and , after a glance, blew on it quickly. He shook it a few times and put it back in. The engine immediately responded to the starter. all that was wrong with the engine, the mechanic explained, was that the flow of its gasoline had been temporarily shut off by the dust which had collected on the little screen. Being somewhat of a philosopher, the mechanic made the observation that men are like that; sometimes their mental screens become clogged and they fail to accept the bounteous blessings with which a generous Providence has surrounded them.

This caused the driver to do some thinking. He had received a tremendous lesson in applied faith. Suddenly he realized how many unhappy situations in life are caused by interruptions of in flowing life-energy from Infinite Intelligence. He understand more clearly than ever before how the screen of the mind, clogged by doubt, fear and worry, could shut off the life-giving inspiration and energy which is forever flowing around us.

This simple story should bring us face to face with the matter of applied faith. You need to gather a lot of faith to be able to move on with life. thanks for reading.