A Certain Amount Of Faith

I think faith is inevitable, but some things are done without thinking about the faith factor.  Think of this example, when someone sits in a chair, they in many cases do it automatically just taking it for granted that it will stay together and not break, unlike the experience I had not long ago when I sat in a plastic chair.  The problem I had was, it wasn’t long when I heard a big crack, and I was lying on the concrete because one of the legs of the chair broke with a loud cracking sound, which was very unexpected.  Not long after that, maybe an hour or so, I sat on a porch swing and I heard a snap and that broke also, but not all the way, so it didn’t fall, thank the good Lord, and also for not getting hurt when the leg broke off the plastic chair.  When a person gets on a ladder or goes to a doctor, they need to have a certain amount of faith in both cases.  And what about when you get into a bathtub to take a bath or shower.  We don’t call it faith many times, but if you think about it, that is what it should be called because it is so easy to slip and fall.  Even when you go to a restaurant or a fast food place like Mc-D’s you have a certain amount of faith that nothing is wrong with the food you order.

What is faith, this is what the word of God says, please read Hebrews 11:1, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”   

I believe every person alive needs to have a certain amount of faith just getting out of bed and walking out your door to go anywhere.  I realize so many of us take things for granted and many don’t think about it being faith at all, they are so used to doing the things they do.  Faith is so important, but what you have faith in, is even more important.  Some people don’t believe there is, or ever was, a creator or they just don’t want to acknowledge that there is.  I know the popular thing today, in some circles, is evolution which says the earth, as we know it, has been around billions of years which took place from a big explosion and everything eventually came together perfectly, but as for me I will take the Bible’s account for what took place and that also takes a lot of faith.

Please read what it says Romans 1:16-23, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.”  

As for me, I chose to believe in God’s creative work because we all have been given a free will to choose for ourselves what we believe, so I believe that the Word of God is true, so naturally I believe that God created the earth and all that the Word of God claims that He has created.  Please read John 1:1-3, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”

Besides believing in His creative powers, I also believe desperately that we need Him to reveal Himself to us more and more every day.  But, like I said in other blogs, the things of God are spiritually discerned and without the spirit guiding and leading you into all truths with God’s spirit living inside you, you cannot comprehend spiritual things.  This is part of the born-again experience.  When you are born-again, your body becomes the temple of the Holy Spirit.  Please read 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, “Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.”

 

If you would like to have a personal relationship with the Lord so that you can have spiritual discernment and a strong faith in what I believe is real and lasting, repent of your sins when you feel the Holy Spirit’s conviction and don’t put it off, turn from your sins and turn to the Lord, confessing and rejecting your sins and ask Him to come into your heart and be your Lord and Savior and to forgive you of your sins!!  I believe that God wants everyone to be saved, please read John 3:16-17, “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. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”  

And don’t forget to ask Him to help you to love every person, even your enemies, and to have the kind of faith that will move mountains if need be.  Enough said, may you and yours have a super day and may the good Lord bless you and yours also!!