Daily Gosho - The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra

It's up to us! The Mystic Law will afford us limitless power and allow us to reach our highest potential but we've got to truly believe it works. Not for everyone else but us. Not for some situations and not others. Its power is universal and encompasses us all. It goes back to whether we actually recognize our own Buddhahood...  
As Nichiren says in the Gosho, The True Aspect of All Phenomena "Now, no matter what, strive in faith and be known as a votary of the Lotus Sutra, and remain my disciple for the rest of your life. If you are of the same mind as Nichiren, you must be a Bodhisattva of the Earth. And if you are a Bodhisattva of the Earth, there is not the slightest doubt that you have been a disciple of Shakyamuni Buddha from the remote past. The sutra states, “Ever since the long distant past I have been teaching and converting this multitude.” There should be no discrimination among those who propagate the five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo in the Latter Day of the Law, be they men or women. Were they not Bodhisattvas of the Earth, they could not chant the daimoku." 
So, we all have Buddhahood, we're Bodhisattvas of the Earth, we can all chant Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo, and we all have the power to attain enlightenment in this lifetime. In the words of George Michael, we just "gotta have faith" :)

"It is the heart that is important. No matter how earnestly Nichiren prays for you, if you lack faith, it will be like trying to set fire to wet tinder. Spur yourself to muster the power    of faith."

(The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 1000) http://www.sgilibrary.org/view.php?page=1000 Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, July 28th, 2012, Selection source: "Myoji no Gen", Seikyo Shimbun, August 15th, 2012


Background
In the tenth month of the second year of Koan (1279), this letter was written in reply to a letter to Nichiren Daishonin from Shijo Kingo, informing him that Kingo had been ambushed by enemies among his fellow samurai, but had managed to escape unharmed.
The Daishonin teaches Kingo that faith must always come first, before any other tactic or strategy, and that faith in the Mystic Law is the ultimate factor that determines victory or defeat.