Faith seems to be the very core of spiritual life. “In Christ Jesus, the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.” Galatians 5:4-6(ESV) What is faith? Faith is willingness to accept matters as it is.Hebrews 11:1(ESV) Being sure of what we hope for – hoping but sure. Certain of what we do not see– not seeing but certain. How do we get faith? Romans 10:17 (ESV) “Faith comes then from hearing, hearing the word of Christ” Without faith (willingness to accept the Bible as it is, be sure of our hope and certain of what we cannot see) we cannot please God. Hebrews 11:6(ESV) Look at the lives of all the saints before us. They just walked by faith.How to walk by faith? Put faith into action. “As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deed is dead.” James 2:14-16(ESV) Everything we receive from God is by Faith.
We are Saved by faith: “But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in Him will not be put to shame.”For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.””Romans 10:8-11, 13 (ESV) Get saved and have eternal life. Please do not miss this great blessing.
Made righteous by faith: “But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,”Romans 3:21-24 ESV No one is righteous. All have sinned. No one who understands. No one seeks God. Through Law (Ten Commandments ) we came to know about sin. God gave Jesus’ blood as a sacrifice of atonement and made us all righteous by faith.
Walk in Faith:“”If you love me, you will keep my commandments.Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.””John 14:15, 21 (ESV) Jesus says again and again. I say to you and giving His own set of Commandments apart from the 10 Commandments. I counted them in the 4 gospels and in Matthew alone I counted 145, dos and don’t s that Jesus commanded us- Rejoice, Fear not, Only believe, Let your yes be yes and no be no, do not swear, love, give, watch and pray, ask, seek, knock. etc. Observe them all.
In our school and college curriculum we learn a lot but we never use many of the things we studied. We are used to this. But Jesus’ Words are useful in our life every second, every thought or every move you make. Check whether you do accordingly. World teaches greed. Jesus says beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses, but be rich towards God. Luke 12:15,21(ESV) Many come to get something material from God but few come to receive gifts of the Holy Spirit and operate in them to serve, not bothering about their life here. Matthew 7:13-14(ESV)