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WHAT IS FAITH ?
Freelance writer Lupie Riley
Thought: Even before you board a plane you trust the pilot to get you to your destination. There are many different ways in our daily living we put trust to the test. Faith and trust go hand in hand. You can't put into practice one without the other. God's word describes faith as " the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen".
Great men and woman of old put their faith and trust in a God they couldn't see or touch. Their trust was in Jehovah, creator of all things. Even today believers are laying their lives down for their faith in the God/man Jesus. Abraham was the father of faith as he trusted that God would raise his son Jacob from the dead. God provided a substitute. Esther was a woman of faith as she pleaded with the King on behalf of her people. Moses and Noah were men of faith in their obediance to God's instruction. David trusted God to give him victory in his battles and wisdom as King over his people. There were many others that put their faith in God because they listened to the directions from his Spirit.
After the ascention of the God/man Jesus, we put our faith in the same God that the patriarchs of old worshiped with one difference. We now have the written word (his biography) to keep us on the right path, a complete history of Jesus past, present and future relationship with mankind. God was in Christ revealing himself to humanity by taking sin upon himself so that we can be forgiven and have life everlasting. We can now have a relationship with God in the Spirit of the Comforter (Jesus). We also have the incomparable perfections of his hand in all creation and the promise he's coming back as the long awaited Messiah to set up his kindom on Earth for 1,000 years. It takes faith to believe in someone we can't see or touch, faith in his spoken word, faith in what he accomplished on the cross and faith in the promise he's coming back. The next step is to trust him with all your heart, mind and soul and invite him in to be a part of your life that will never end. John 3:16 Maranatha
Prayer: Father God, It's an awesome thing to have a relationship with the same God men and women of old worshiped. By placing our faith in Jesus we receive forgiveness, restoration and eternal life. How can we ever turn down such a precious gift as this. Amen
Eph. 2:8 "Because of his kindness you have been saved through trusting Christ. And even trusting is not of yourselves it too is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good we have done, so none of us can take any credit for it. It is God himself who has made us what we are and given us new lives from Christ Jesus; and long ages ago he planned that we should spend these lives in helping others".
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