Faith comes by hearing Saint Paul said, but many hear and few believe. Only those who ACT on faith, who believe and learn of faith through experience become Faith-filled/Faithful. Can "meditation create faith" not likely despite the Western penchant for daydreaming and calling it "inspiration."

Those who think they can experience real Faith without "doing" real worship, real faithful things, fail to understand the Nature of the Body of Christ and the Reality of The Church. Instead, they become by their individual practice "spiritual" i.e., open to the spirits but not faith-filled and faithful. They become scattered and tossed about on a sea of emotions and poorly understood or self-created teachings, full of grand ideas and grand loving motivation, decades pass and little changes, except their own entrenched faith in their own spiritual power and maybe, moral goodness.


So few Evangelicals and Protestants who rail against "works righteousness" can grasp the reality that the work of the faith is not to gain "merit" as the Romans falsely teach, or to gain righteousness has THEY falsely believe, but rather the WORK of the Faith is the "experience of THE FAITH." "Faith without works is dead" or as I say, a daydream, a mere soulish experience, where one becomes meditative and exposed to the fantasies of the psyche or the teaching of demons, or some admixture according to the danger one possibly poses to Satan's reign, were one to actually become Faith-Filled and Faithful.

"Faith comes not through pondering but through action. Not words and speculation but experience teaches us what God is. To let in fresh air we have to open a window; to get tanned we must go out into the sunshine. Achieving faith is no different; we never reach a goal by just sitting in comfort and waiting, say the holy Fathers. Let the Prodigal Son be our example He arose and came (Luke 15:20).

(Colliander, The Way of the Ascetics)