Inspiration Or Faith - Which Comes First?

Do you start out with faith in God or do you have to
be inspired to search for Him? Where does the inspiration to believe in
God come from? It seems everyone has an answer, but which answer is
right?

I believe it depends on who is asking the question. If you
are a person that is well grounded in your religious beliefs then faith
probably comes first. If you are searching for God, then perhaps you
need to be inspired to help you find your way.

I like to believe
that we are all inspired to find our faith in God. To me it is a
natural human instinct perhaps facilitated by an inborn genetic code or
gene. I like to believe that the inspiration to find God comes from the
Almighty Himself.

I think the inspiration comes from our need to
experience God’s grace, to find inner peace, and to develop a sense of
serenity. I think it comes from our need to seek God’s help in coping
with our problems. I think it comes from a desire to believe that there
is something more to our lives than the short span of our own
mortality. I think it comes from a need to be assured that there is a
Heaven.

Whatever inspires us to find our faith in God; the fact
is that we do have the need to believe. Most of us have to believe in a
higher power to make our lives tolerable. We want to have faith because
it helps us achieve inner peace of mind. We are inspired to have faith
because we want to succeed in our journey to find God.

May God
grant us the strength and the inspiration and the faith to succeed in
our search on a journey that never ends – the search to find God. ***

Arthur
Levine is the author of the Faith Patch Manual and The Magic Of Faith.
Please visit his Web sites to get inspired to continue your search for
God at: http://www.faith-patch.com and http://www.Faith123.com or his blog at: http://searchfor-god.blogspot.com.