MAN'S RESPONCE TO GOD by faith, CCC 142-143

142 By his Revelation, ''the invisible God, from the fullness of his love, addresses men as his friends and moves among them, in order to invite and receive them into his own company.'' The adequate response to this invitation is faith.

143 By faith, man completely submits his intellect and his will to God. With his whole being man gives his assent to God the revealer. Sacred Scripture calls this human response to God, the author of revelation, "the obedience of faith."

Man has the ability to choose faith. The door is always open whenever were ready. This is why God is represented as a friend, giving us the ability to accept his friendship, to accept faith. It's a choice left to us because faith would not exist without first having the ability to choose. It's best to choose with our heart because only then would we truly know if we have accepted God with all our heart.

Faith is also the ability to trust. To trust something that is physically not there. To truly know it without proof. The ability to trust our instincts, or maybe common sense. We know deep in our heart it's there from our own personal experiences. Where things happen and there is no ability to make a logical explanation, because it's something beyond our world.

We see miracles every day without any explanation or how it happens. Can we truly say "only God knows" or is it something we read in the Bible that corresponds to a particular event. It's hard to say what is real. But we know the Bible has been around for three thousand four hundred years and the prophecy’s keep coming true. For us to understand we would have to be in an alternate universe, maybe outer space. We know common sense and putting two and two together leads us to believe that even though we don't have all the pieces we have enough to know that there is more out there we still don't understand. Giving us enough information to decipher that God is our friend.