Maybe if I understood more of the methodology and technology involved in the research I would be more likely to believe, more able to conquer the skeptic that lives within me. I just don't have a lot of faith in modern science, I guess. From Genesis to Revelation, faith is described as a simple act that shows trust. Jesus even suggested that children are our best teachers in the search to understand what it means to have faith. But if faith is simple, it's also challenging.
Faith calls for more than intellectual agreement with a formula.
Genuine faith is a response that shows itself in what we do. In today's reading from the Gospel of Matthew, Peter becomes a symbol for the whole church, representing the call to take the step of faith, to venture out on the waters, and to trust in Jesus as our only hope of salvation. Peter also illustrates what happens to us as Christians when we lose our focus on Jesus. Now, that's not to say that dramatic actions such as Peter's are the only acceptable evidence of faith. For the vast majority of us, it's in the ordinary tasks of our daily routine that faith will make itself evident.