Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. (Heb 11:1)

Faith is the potent, energetic, active ingredient essential to life.

Faith refuses to accept any situation as it is, or as inevitable. Faith believes that God is active in every situation. 

Faith moves forward in grace and love with God’s wisdom. Faith sees God’s creative alternatives when surrounded by sin, death and destruction. Faith wins moral and spiritual victories, alongside temporal victories. 

Faith knows that God’s promises are a present reality even when they are not visible. Faith manifests God’s power, the power which raised Jesus Christ from the dead.

Faith exchanges weakness for strength, sorrow for joy. Faith realistically evaluates the present and anticipates the future that God has promised. 

But faith isn’t an assurance that you will always see the victory this side of glory … 

Faith isn’t a guarantee of worldly possessions, or a promise of a rose garden. In fact faith was never intended to change your social status or economic status in this life. What faith does change is your spiritual status. Faith transfers your citizenship from this earth to heaven. 

Faith brings the sweet fragrance of God into your life on earth as you live as a citizen of God’s Kingdom. Faith enables you to endure suffering and adversity with serenity.

Faith is all that remains when you live in the middle of man’s inhumanity to other men. Faith is the strength to continue to love God when the world tries to compress you into a common mould. 

Only faith can resist Satan. Only faith can endure the evil you currently face in your life. 

With the hope of a blessed resurrection you are not a fool to be pitied because of your faith. No! You possesses the greatest and only hope – God the Holy Spirit! 

By faith you possess God’s love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness and self-control! The world can never, ever, ever tear or squeeze these out of your soul!

Prayer Gracious Father, thank you the gift of faith. Help me in my unbelief. May my coworkers see my faith in you through the way I speak and the way I do my work. Amen.

Blessings

James Bruyn