Seeing is believing… NOT!

The world uses the term faith loosely and throws it around like any other word and as vain as the phrases, “Oh my god!” or “Jesus!” I personally can’t go without thinking of God when exercising faith or think about faith. Faith is another one of those powerful words with multiple meanings.

As Arlene explained in her devotional, there is “Faith” – the noun – and “faith” – the verb.

Faith when expressed as a noun has religious ties, like the “Christian Faith” for example. It still means belief, but it’s a religious belief. Like a belief in Buddha, or Allah... or like a belief in Christ.

Faith as a verb is “to believe”. It’s the discipline and strength to believe in the impossible. To know the desires of your heart will happen, when and how you want or expect them to. Faith is also a belief in things you cannot see.(Hebrews 11:1) That’s why when the world says “Seeing is believing”, I disagree. Faith is believing! You don’t need to see everything to believe. I’ve used air as an example before. I can’t see air. Don’t know about you, but the world seems to make us believe it’s there. There’s no question about that! And it’s just so hard for them to wrap their minds around Christ rising from the dead, or even believe in his existence. If they didn’t see it, it couldn’t have been true! 2 Corinthians 5:7 says, “Our lives are guided by faith, not by sight.” So believe that! If Christ hasn’t come back to life, your faith is worthless and sin still has you in its power, 1 Corinthians 15:17.

To me, faith is believing strongly with my heart on something, and knowing it will come to pass with the help of Christ. With my trust already in him, the impossible part is for what I believe not to come true.

Faith is power though, and like Spider-man’s grandma said, with great power comes great responsibility. And with that said, you have to know that in order for your faith to work at its peak power, you have to continue doing what is right and what makes your heavenly father proud. Faith by itself is dead if it doesn’t cause you to do any good things, James 2:17.

Doubt, the opposite of faith, can easily come over you when you misuse your faith. Expecting your faith to pull through for you, when you aren’t doing the right things is useless. Things might not work in your favor and the result of that can easily become doubt. We’ve all probably been through this. So why not keep our faith strong, and make sure it continues to work for us and not against us.

Be strong!

- C.j.