The Sound of Many Waters

By Robert Manuel Trindade

Our beliefs determine how we behave personally, and also our lawful standards as well. Misplaced faith and worship has led many far from truth. God is not tolerant toward sin or the rejection of truth. His ways are not our ways, and wisdom and salvation only come through His way. Christ is the fulfilment of God's love for us and His word which is the guide.

God has made Himself known to all through nature, His written word, and in the person of Christ. Our understanding and acceptance of God will determine our lives as individuals and as a society more than any other beliefs. God has set the standard for love and moral living, and when we honor Him, we will become what's needed by our fellow man. Wisdom and truth are God's, and all substitutes will not stand. Only in God should we trust.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Release date: Dec 3, 2019
• ISBN: 9781400327904

Robert Manuel Trindade

I'm an accidental writer who is inspired and burdened by both the good and the bad.

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Beliefs are the most important thing. The word believe means accept. What you believe and accept about anything determines what you’ll do. Beliefs are behind every action and inaction because they’re what drives them or halts them.

Faith is the greatest and most risky form of belief because it acts on and trusts in what can’t be seen. Faith really is the greatest act of trust that can be given. Faith frees you in that it gives up the fear of the unseen and accepts something. Frankly, faith is even seen as naive which is one of the reasons it’s mocked. Children are usually more capable of faith than adults, so faith is seen as childlike.

Putting faith in someone or something that lets you down crushes the ability to have faith. Not only being harmed and having trust broken can take away faith, but also having guilt robs faith because both result in fear.

Guilt itself knows it’s not worthy of trust. How can it expect and trust for something better in someone else? Guilt has a fear of shame or even judgment of some kind, and having trust broken brings fear of risk with others who could betray trust.

To be a guilty person or a victim shatters faith, and don’t we know this all too well?

Children are different and are beautiful and lovable because to us, they are far more innocent and lack the fear that results from guilt or being a victim.

In its own way, the loss of this kind of innocence happens to all, and all will experience what truly are the effects and results of sin and the destruction of the soul.

To live without faith is to be a slave to whatever your situations and circumstances are and have been. That’s all that can be seen, known, and experienced without faith. Faithless people are fearful slaves, both guilty and victimized, and likely all carry deep sorrow.

Guilt and fear are wild and powerful emotions at the heart of so many awful and unfortunate things. We fully believe and accept the dangers that we and others are capable of and all kinds of terrible things that could happen. We trust, accept, and believe that our experience is the only teacher we should listen to, but that is not how to live!

At the same time, we call our experience the best and only fitting teacher that can actually benefit us yet fearfully hold to that which has destroyed our very soul. Guilt, fear, and pain are all your experience. They are not your teachers; they are your tormentors.

Even our bodies show the outward consequence and experience of sin. We are all guilty of and victims of sin that has broken our bodies and hearts.

The death of the body and spirit is the consequence of sin. Christ came and suffered and experienced this death even though He was not guilty of any sin.

Our souls can live forever and our sins be legally paid for because He took the consequences of sin for all of us. He gave Himself for us so that He could save us.

Many reject faith because they fear and cannot trust the unseen but live in constant agony and fear of what is seen and all that they have seen. They’d rather hold their experience and pain like a knife in their heart than reach out for something else they fear could be sharp. There is nothing more sorrowful than those who willingly accept and even clutch to their own torture.

Not only does faith free you in that it gives up the fear of the unseen, it also frees you from the fear of what is seen and what’s been seen because it has accepted, believed in, and trusted in something else that is held in its heart and not the jagged and brutal edge of experience.

Because many have only known lies, they never reach for truth because long ago they’ve given up hope that it exists. They truly only believe in and accept lies because it’s all they’ve known and it’s all they’ve seen, and they only believe in what they’ve known and seen. The experience of lies has paralyzed any chance of change.

Lies are your prison guard, and only faith in the truth will set you free. Truth is your freedom, and faith is the hand that reaches for it. Christ said, I am the way, the truth, and the life…. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Christ also said this when referring to His purpose: He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed….

Other writings were written as both a poem and song originally by the famous biblical man David. One of these says:

This will be written for the generation to come, that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord. For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary; from heaven the Lord viewed the earth, to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to release those appointed to death.

The most famous verse says: For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Christ was God sent to be born as a man, the Son of God. There are different names or titles, but they all explain who God and Christ are.

Another biblical writing explains that through faith God is in us, and we are in and of