[Repost with edit from Blog of December 9, 2009]
It's not so much what others think. it is more about what you believe. I was reading in the book of Matthew (Chapter 8). A particular passage of scripture stuck with me, because it read true. “Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee”, the verse read.
The preceding scriptures were a couple of parables that described how faith operates. Basically, the requirement to make “faith” work is “belief”. As I re-read the scriptures a few times, I was fascinated how easy it was for some people to believe just because they do.
One of the parables was about a centurion who asked Jesus to heal his servant who was some distance away. Jesus said okay, and had offered to go to the soldier’s house to heal his servant.