Are you a partaker of active faith or passive faith?

I'm a huge fan of analogies. When someone can take a confusing idea and compare it so similarly to something easily-understood, it is an incredibly enlightening experience!

I had a realization a couple years ago when I was thinking about how often I found myself being impatient with God. I'd say a prayer and then would get so impatient when I didn't see it answered right away. This is a common pattern in society: people thinking God forgot about them or that He doesn't hear us when we cry out to Him. See, that's the thing with passive and active faith.

With passive faith...Deep down inside, Christians are aware of the fact that God is present at all times (omniscient), but we tend to quickly forget when something goes contrary to the way we planned it to go.

We have to remember that the moment we say a prayer, God hears us. In fact, God knows what we are going to pray before we even have the inkling to say a prayer to Him in the first place. That should be assuring enough, but we are so human! :) We are a people who constantly forget things, unfortunately God's promises, especially. We always need to be reminded for the things we'll inevitably forget over time.

The analogy I came up with regarding passive faith was that the faith exists during the daytime when the sun is out, but then as soon as the sun goes down and it's dark, we humans forget it was ever light out...meaning that our faith becomes passive and not active.

With active faith, we continue to have faith in the night when all hope is lost and the sky (world) is full of darkness. Just because we don't see the sun (God) doesn't mean it doesn't exist, right? That is having faith! Believing in something that we cannot see. Just because we cannot see the sun at night doesn't mean that it ceases to exist. Just because we go through hardships and don't feel God's presence sometimes doesn't mean that He ceases to exist.

Bad things happen at night, you know, in the darkness. But then the sun comes up and the evil things scatter like cockroaches when light shines upon them. There is darkness in the world. Unbelieving people who do everything on their own accord don't think that anyone is watching their debauchery, but then God shines (the sun comes up) and the dew on the grass in the morning is revealed. Good ALWAYS prevails over evil.

Do you continue to praise God when the sun goes down? Or do you forget about Him and live contrary to His ways when the sun disappears over the hilltops? Are you a partaker of active faith or passive faith?