Faith is a belief in or confident attitude toward God involving commitment to His will for one's life. In modern times, faith has been weakened and mislead in meaning so that some people apply or use it to mean self-confidence.

In fact, faith was already present in the experience of many people in the Old Testament as a key element of their spiritual lives. Faith is part of the Christian life from beginning to end. As the instrument by which the gift of salvation is received, faith is thus, distinct from the basis of salvation which is grace and from the outworking of salvation which is good works.

Because it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith; not by anything of your own but by a gift from God; not by anything that you have done so that nobody can claim the credit. We are God's work of art created in Christ Jesus to live the good life as from the beginning he had meant for us to live it. - Eph. 2:8-10 -

In the New Testament 'faith' covers various levels of personal commitment. Mere intellectual agreement to a truth is illustrated, even demons are said to believe that there is one God. Obviously, however, they are not saved by this type of belief. Genuine saving faith is a personal attachment to Christ, best thought of as a combination of two ideas - reliance on God and commitment to Him.

Faith is like that: if good works do not go with it, it is quite dead.

This is the way to talk to people of that kind; You say you have faith and I have good deeds; I will prove to you that I have faith by showing you my good deeds - now you prove to me that you have faith without any good deeds to show. You believe in the one God - that is credible enough but the demons have the same belief and they tremble with fear. Do realise, you senseless man that faith with good deeds is useless. You surely know that Abraham our father was justified by his deed because he offered his son Isaac on the altar? There you see it: faith and deeds were working together; his faith became perfect by what he did. This is what scripture really means when it says; Abraham put his faith in God and this was counted as making him justified and that is why he was called 'the friend of God'. - James 2:17-23 -

Saving faith is also a personal commitment of one's life to following Christ in obedience to His commands.

It is only on account of this that I am experiencing fresh hardships here now; but I have not lost confidence because I know who it is that I have put my trust in and I have no doubt at all that he is able to take care of all that I have entrusted to him until that Day. - 2Tim. 1:12 -

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -