The Necessary Word - FAITH A Sunday School teacher asked, 'What do we mean by faith?' A little boy answered, 'Believing things you know aren't true. 'No, faith is not that. Faith is confidence in what God has said, and therefore we believe His word as being true. Faith may seem hard to define yet it is a universal principle. If men build a bridge, however primitive it is, they exercise faith when they walk, ride or drive across it. Farmers exercise faith whenever they plant a crop. Even to sit on a chair is to show faith. You believe it will hold you. Putting money in a bank is an act of faith. Obeying a doctor shows our faith in him. God has chosen this principle of faith to be the link that leads to salvation through His Son Jesus Christ. Faith is accepting what God has done as the only means of salvation. It is not only opening our hands to receive. It is taking what is offered because we believe in the one who is making the offer. This initial act of trusting God becomes the pertinent abiding attitude of the soul which has accepted God's promise of salvation. Faith is personal. Many things can be done for us by other people but not exercising faith. Personal faith is the only kind recognised in the Bible. We must have it for ourselves. Saving faith is looking away from ourselves and from what we have done or can do and looking to Christ alone. Faith is not doing, it is resting. Faith is not based on feelings but it is taking God at His word. Are you doing that? REMEMBER THIS VERSE: 'Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.' (Hebrews 11:1) |
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