My Faith
Hello Fellow Dreamers,
I have been giving myself permission to fully be, thus the delay in posting. This past Sunday at Church, a message was brought forth on the topic of Faith. I found myself starting to slowly cringe from anxiety on how this message would present the topic of Faith. I have heard a million and one messages on Faith and I can say only a handful of those messages, have I found to be helpful for the believer. Many times these messages are filled with fluff and feel good antidotes rather than Biblical truth.
The next stop usually after my internal cringe fest is my heart; it lingers to the person(s) sitting in the congregation that is going through the darkness night they have ever known, and they are now being told, "You are not believing hard enough" or "You don't have enough Faith". I concede, that although this may be the case in some minute instances, majority of the other times, this line of thinking is not truth.
I think the message I heard on Sunday was one of those that I found to be helpful. I allowed my biases to dissipate and allowed my spirit to listen freely to what was being shared. My intention in writing this post is not to provide commentary on the actual message, but rather, my intention is to share with you what I learned and was challenged by.
I was challenged mostly to not think of Faith as some abstract thought or concept, I was challenged to think of Faith as mine. My Faith is... just that.... it's my Faith. Now let me be clear, what I am saying is that my Faith is developed through MY relationship with Christ. So there is one other Being(who happens to be Triune) involved and myself, making us the only parties with the right to stake claim on this Faith. Therefore, my Faith should not be open to or dependent on the commentary of others to criticize or play a shaping role without my invitation.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. - Hebrews 11:1
Many times we find ourselves measuring our Faith against that of others and this shouldn't be the case. The measurement of our Faith is a direct correlation with our relationship with Christ. Faith is the bedrock of our relationship with GOD and we need to start taking an active role in its positive development.
I can go on and on, but as mentioned earlier, I want to share some of the other thoughts that stood out to me from Sunday's message. For now I have summarized them into three sentences below:
My faith should be anchored in the approval of God not people.
My Faith should be grounded in God's character, believing and taking His Word as good.
My Faith should be prepared to give up everything if God requires it.
Thank you for taking to time to read through my thoughts. I would be more than happy to continue with my thoughts in the comment section below for those who want to go deeper into the topic of Faith.