Faith and obedience

In a commonplace way, faith underlines how everyone lives. We drink water, trusting that it has been safely processed. We trust that the food we purchase at the supermarket or eat at a restaurant is uncontaminated. We will even submit to a doctor and his surgical scalpel, even though we don’t have any expertise in medical procedures. Once the surgery has been finished, we take the medicine prescribed to us, without really knowing how or what it does for our system.

Every day, we exercise an innate faith in someone or something. Faith comes naturally.

If I have a headache, I’ll take Tylenol and...