Hebrews 11:1
“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”
Hebrews 11:1 NIV
The good news of salvation and life eternal, is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. Whether Old Testament saints or New Testament believers, the only way to access this free and eternal gift from the Father is to trust in His Word and believe in His Son.
Faith is simply having the confidence that the future things God has revealed in His written Word, will unquestionably happen. God has not called us to a blind leap into the dark, but to bank our lives on the One who is dependable and faithful.
Faith is the assurance, like when you have assurance of something. This is faith, assurance of things hoped for. So it’s not like, “I hope my team is going to win,” but you don’t know if it’s really going to happen, or “I hope this or that is going to happen,” when you don’t really know if it will.
This is assurance. You know that what you have hoped for will happen and you have conviction, like conviction of things not seen. You know that that which you don’t see is real and true.
A living faith in God's Word and the confident hope in His promises are two graces that embrace each other in love at the foot of the Cross. This is not a 'Que sera sera, fingers-crossed and-hope-it-happens' type of faith. This is the faith that accepts without question that the Word of God is entirely dependable and is an indisputable fact.
Faith is not based on experience, nor calculated through reason. True faith is anchored on scriptural facts. It is beyond man's intellect and cannot be penetrated through reasoning or discovered through scientific proof.
It has nothing to do with personal opinion or impressions. It is beyond the dimension of human thought because it is the substance of facts that are conceived in the mind of God.
The eye of faith sees beyond our present reality and places its feet firmly on divine revelation given by Almighty God, through the Word-made-flesh. It believes God's Word of truth in the pages of Scripture, which was written for our learning, instruction, encouragement, and hope.
The heart of faith enables us to treat as reality those things that are unseen, even when circumstances of life appear to contradict the truth of God's Word.
May the hope we have in Christ and the faith we have in God be built on the truth, of His Word and grounded on a sure conviction. May we never stumble when situations seem to go amiss, and may we be firmly persuaded: "He who started a good work in each of our lives is well able to bring it to completion”!!!
Father thank You for this day and for the breath of life we have in today. Lord pour out Your abundant blessings upon my friend and family today. Lord we know we can be so entrenched in our own thinking that sometimes we doubt Your Word and question Your promises, often wishing we had some concrete proof of Your love for us. Lord forgive us, for we know that Your Word gives us all the affirmation of this absolute reality that we need. Lord thank You for the gift of faith. Lord we pray that, day by day, our loving trust in You will become increasingly established within our hearts for we long to please You in all we say and do and are. Lord use my friend to be the light of Your love to all today. Be a blessing.
Father, we love You. Amen !
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