There is something I need to tell you about why I’m doing these blogs about faith. At the end of last year, I decided to take an in-depth look into the subject of faith, what it is, why it’s important, and how to live faithfully in such turbulent and challenging times. My investigation has led me to re-examine some basic questions and understandings about why this subject is so crucial for me and others who want our lives to count for God and His purposes. Today, we look at one of those fundamental questions about faith.
Why is faith important? In last week’s blog, I briefly touched on the idea that biblical faith is the key to and foundation for your hope for eternal life. It is also necessary for the personal growth God wants for you. Because these truths are so important, I want to lay a good foundation for other blogs about why faith is essential.
Although you are created out of the same essential elements as every plant, animal, and everything else in creation, you are uniquely different. You are created “Imagio Deo”(in the image of God) and have the hunger and capacity for a relationship with Him. God made you for Himself, to know Him, and to be known by Him. God is Spirit and invisible, not directly accessible through the five senses and reason by which you use your practical, everyday faith.
Biblical faith is essential to having a saving relationship with God. Faith connects your spiritual nature to God. Because God created you with the capacity to trust Him, you can know Him at a personal level through that faith. You are a spirit with a body, and because of that, you will always have a Creator/creature relationship with Him. God wants you to interact with Him at a deeper, more personal level. He wants to give you a “born again” eternal life that is only possible through faith. You remain separated from Him and ‘lost” from His plan until you trust Him. You can enter the “adventure of faith” by turning away from your sin (repenting) and accepting what He has done to “save” you through the death and resurrection of Jesus. “By grace you are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9. Our saving relationship with God begins and ends with faith.
One thing is sure, you and I are worshipping beings. Our spiritual nature requires that we worship a “god” of some sort. Your “supreme being” can be yourself, family, possessions, or some vague, unknown “man in the sky” idea. Biblical faith is very narrow about the focus of our faith. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ is the only one worthy of our faith. He alone can deliver on the promise of eternal life He has made to those who trust Him to guide our lives.
Have you entered into this adventure of faith with God? Do you know someone who might need to read this blog?
2 thoughts on “Entering the Faith Adventure”
Really good stuff you’re writing, Cos. Keep it up!
Glad you like it. I really appreciate your support and encouraging words. I’m learning a great deal through this intensive investigation of faith. I think it might lead to the next book, “Adventures in Faith.”