A Perfect Simplicity
Dark is modern thought, where ledger becomes soul and cash the only strength. For too many, hollowness lingers as profound confusion. Many say faith must be justified by works, as though the heart were a vault needing keys, or the spirit a machine requiring fuel. The Light, however, is an unshakeable flame, burning not in the physical eye of any beholder but in the soul’s quiet chamber unlocked from dread. The inward fire simplifies our gaze toward others and the world, not by altering any essences, but by rendering ours more truly reflective of the white Holy Spirit inflamed in passion for God’s intentions. Trust with all our being acts as mirror, reflecting undying Truth that nothing can hinder the good works faith compels.
A seed needs no proof of its worth; it simply grows, root and stem, toward the sun. Similarly, the soul welded to faith does not need to validate itself through deeds, for its purpose is not to be seen but to be, grow, and do. When one truly believes, the works are not acts of performance but expressions of our absolutely settled conviction. They arise with our ascendance in this trust, not as responses to scrutiny, but a natural unfolding of the Light within no darkness could ever hope to extinguish.
The modern scientistic mindset, ever hungry for evidence, also mistakes the outward for the inward in morality. It sees the good deeds as proof of faith, when in truth, they are the fruit of a belief so deep it requires no human justification. The Christian who feeds the hungry does not do so to impress; they do it because their soul is rooted in certainty of God’s ultimate Goodness, and His power to transform any heart. They who shelter the truly weary without thought of self act not for applause; such is proof love is not spectacle, it is breath. Piety is in acts of faith made manifest, seen or unseen, founded in faith so complete it needs no witness.
This simplicity is often misunderstood. To claim faith alone is to stand in the face of a world that demands proof for all things, as though belief were performance and virtue transaction fee for the entertainment. However, I must ask what is faith if not the quiet assertion that the soul’s compass points to the good already present eternally for which we may hope to represent momentarily? That the good has expanded, and continues to expand despite the best efforts of evil, in reaction even, portends this, with proof requiring data collection on a human level which no computer could ever hope to simulate. The works that follow from faith are not about justification for a Christian, but the natural consequence of a heart unburdened by the need to prove itself outside of anything but to God alone.
Faith acts because it knows the Light for Light and its shadows as consequences, and that this Light cannot be dimmed while the shadows always shift. The faithful understand the shadows are cast by the Light, so that the truth is unknown and difficult for many to see. True belief also simplifies the gaze of others, not by altering our nature, but by rendering it transparent and without pretension, like that of a young child. The man who walks with faith does not need to prove his goodness; he is already whole in all that this trust entails. His works are expressions of absolute truth, nothing more or less. They are the echoes of a heart found at home in our unchanging Light. The works follow like dawn after night.
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