Is your faith real?
(From the Editor’s Desk)
The term ‘faith’ is a widely discussed subject. Everyone has an opinion about it. Faith is exercised by everybody in their daily life. Without some level of faith, it is difficult to function as a human being. This type of faith is always based on things can be touched, smelled, seen, felt, hear or from the past experiences. But this cannot be called spiritual faith as it is just an understanding of things that exist. Every act of man is in some way or another is executed by faith. From the time he wakes up from the bed and till he goes back to bed he does things by faith. Without faith, man is useless. He wouldn’t accomplish anything in life if he doesn’t exercise faith.
But the faith that is discussed in the Bible is not something as mentioned above. It is not a blind belief system. It is putting your trust in someone you have never seen but only heard of, and you have confidence in it. So, neither its origin nor its functioning, you have no claim of yours. It is by the working of someone superior. Now, how do you put your faith in someone you haven’t seen? This special ability is generated in a mans heart by God because of His grace and abounding love towards that man.
If a person says he has believed in God using his own faith, that man must be believing in a god of his imaginations. This is why there are millions of gods in the world. Everyone makes their own gods the way they think or fits in their imaginations.
In John 9:41 Responding to Pharisees, “Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth”. If anyone says by his faith he found god, he is still a sinner.
The Bible says “ all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23) . All men are spiritually dead and utterly depraved. In Psalm 115:17-18 we read “ The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down in to silence. But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and evermore”. The scripture says, people who do not believe in Jesus Christ is condemned already. The wrath of God abide on them.
King Solomon, the wisest of all men , wrote in Ecclesiastes 3:11 “ He hath made every thing beautiful in His time: also he hath set the word in their hearts, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”
The God of The Bible reveals Himself to man through His son Jesus Christ . The word became flesh and dwelt among men. The glory of Christ must be revealed to a man. This is the work of the Holy Spirit. A man believes in this God by hearing His word, because His word is truth and life. It is spoken by the creator for the purpose of regeneration of a sinner. Faith is not imparted by the eloquence of the speaker but it is by the power of the Holy Spirit. The hearer of the word is convicted by the Holy Spirit and gives him faith . Holy Spirit enables a man with new life and what he has the faith of Christ. The highest expression of gratitude to God by a person who claims himself as a beleiver is to admit that the ‘FAITH” that is in him is “the gift of God by His grace”.
The sign of true faith will be projected in a man’s life and it will spring up from him like a river – He will strive for virtue , he will have the longing for the word of God (the spiritual food ) and he will have an unceasing desire to know the Lord. he will be humble, he will persevere, he will have kindness and he loves his enemies.
This person is the wonderful workmanship of God on earth. He will be the one who is made in the image of God .
Ephesians 2:8-10 says “ For by grace are ye saved through faith: and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
If you believe this, you are a true child of God
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