YOU exercise faith every day

When people hear the word, faith they usually think of religion. The thing is, everybody has faith, and they have it every day. If you didn't have faith, you would never leave your home. But you do.
-You have faith that your car is going to start and get you wherever you're going.
-You have faith in the other drivers on the road, that they won't slam into you.
-You have faith that your job or class will be there when you arrive.
-You have faith that at a certain designated time in the future, which you can't see, you will receive a paycheck for your efforts.
It's possible that any of those scenarios will turn out differently, but they're not likely, so you move through your day on faith for two basic reasons:
>You've done all this enough to know that your chances for success are pretty good, and
>You trust the manufacturer who built your car, the other drivers on the road, and that work will go as it has.
In other words, your faith in these objects rests in your knowledge of them and your experience with them, which add up to trust, confidence, and belief. Faith isn't irrational, we exercise it many times each day. Faith doesn't take away from belief. It adds to belief in that it adds trust and gives you the confidence to act on or commit to the things you believe. I also don't have to understand how electricity works in order to turn on a light switch. In fact, without faith,we would never act on our belief in a car, in people, or belief in God.

(thoughts by Bruce Bickel & Stan Jantz from the book Evidence for Faith)