Troy a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Morning Devotional; Walking By Faith.
2 Corinthians 5:6-8; Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
In the Christian community, we often hear the term faith. Howevere, when such a word is used frequently, it can become familiar, and then we sometimes grow immune to it`s great depth of meaning. So today, we will consider what faith actually entails.
All people have faith. For example, it takes a measure of confidence to sit down in a kitchen chair without first testing its strength. Yet belief in the fact that furniture will hold our weight is quit different from entrusting almighty God with our lives. A wrong judgment concerning the first may result in a physical bruise, whereas the latter determines not only our success in this life but also our eternal existence.
So what, exactly, is a biblical defintion of faith? Hebrews 11:1 tells us that it is;"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." And we know that it is impossible to please the Lord without faith (Hebrews 11:6). In fact, there is nothing we can do that will earn salvation; the only way to heaven is by having confidence in Jesus` substitutionary sacrificial death on the cross, which paid the penalty we owed for our sin. What`s more, faith is nothing we can create within ourselves; scripture is clear that is a gift from God;Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Have you accepted the Father`s gift of faith and embarked on the wonderful journey that He invites you to share with Him? God responds to searching hearts. If you are unclear whether you have trusted your life to Him with full confidence, ask Him to guide you and reveal truth.
Amen
Troy
Morning Devotional; Walking By Faith.
2 Corinthians 5:6-8; Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. In the Christian community, we often hear the term faith. Howevere, when such a word is used frequently, it can become familiar, and then we sometimes grow immune to it`s great depth of meaning. So today, we will consider what faith actually entails.
All people have faith. For example, it takes a measure of confidence to sit down in a kitchen chair without first testing its strength. Yet belief in the fact that furniture will hold our weight is quit different from entrusting almighty God with our lives. A wrong judgment concerning the first may result in a physical bruise, whereas the latter determines not only our success in this life but also our eternal existence.
So what, exactly, is a biblical defintion of faith? Hebrews 11:1 tells us that it is;"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." And we know that it is impossible to please the Lord without faith (Hebrews 11:6). In fact, there is nothing we can do that will earn salvation; the only way to heaven is by having confidence in Jesus` substitutionary sacrificial death on the cross, which paid the penalty we owed for our sin. What`s more, faith is nothing we can create within ourselves; scripture is clear that is a gift from God;Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Have you accepted the Father`s gift of faith and embarked on the wonderful journey that He invites you to share with Him? God responds to searching hearts. If you are unclear whether you have trusted your life to Him with full confidence, ask Him to guide you and reveal truth.
Amen
Troy
