Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Faith is in a Person, not a Possibility

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (Hebrews 11:1)

Faith means nothing unless it is faith in something, or Someone:

"No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

"Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit." (1 John 4: 12-13)

We cannot access our awareness of God through our senses, or our flesh, for God is Spirit (John 4: 24), and the flesh cannot access the Spirit:

"For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would." (Galatians 5: 17)

I used to think of faith as believing that something would happen. Yet the definition provided for us in Scripture mentions nothing about time or any other separation. God will never leave us nor forsake us (Hebrews 13: 5), and He has blessed with all spiritual blessing:

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:" (Ephesians 1: 3)

Whatever we are moved to believe, we are believing in something which already exists, but not in the three dimensions in which we currently reside.

Since we have all His blessings within us, the matter for believers now is to work out this salvation with joyful humility (Philippians 2:12; Romans 12: 2)

We do this through the Spirit (2 Corinthians 3: 18), in His Word, which is Spirit and life for us (John 6: 63), and though which we are transformed by our diligence attention to His Word (1 Timothy 4: 15; James 1: 25)

God has already begun moving in our lives. What are you believing for? What are you mediating on? What are you working out in your life, for the faith needed to access this power is already within you. Faith is in a Person, Jesus Christ, who is in us (Galatians 2: 20),  much more than a mere possibility.

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