Do you merely talk faith or do you live by faith? One can understand faith, even discuss it, yet be unable to live it. Why? Living faith requires us to put some action behind our talk. You know the saying: actions speak louder than words. It’s one thing to say it, it’s a totally different thing to live it.
Living by faith is not always easy.
Actually, as we walk with Christ and grow in Him, living by faith can seem to get harder. Why? Because life is about growth and in order to keep growing we’re faced with obstacles that require us to put more action behind our talk. Following Christ is not about just talking, it’s about doing. It’s about maturing in character.
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”
– Romans 8:29
God desires for us to become more like Christ.
Are you living by faith? Or, are you just talking about it? Do your actions display faith in Christ or a sufficiently in self?
As we grow in Christ we should begin to see ourselves less and Christ more.
He is the one. He is the One that we follow. He is the One that we trust. For we know that we cannot even trust ourselves.
“Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
– Matthew 26:41
Jesus is who we put our trust in.
“Jesus saith unto him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
– John 14:6
He is our life. He has everything that we need.
It’s not always easy following Christ. Actually, it does get hard which is why so many people fall away. People get discouraged by life’s circumstances and resort to doing things their own way. They think at least they can see and understand their own way, as opposed to trusting in Christ who we cannot see with our natural eye.
Following Christ requires forsaking sight for faith.
“For we live by faith, not by sight.”
– II Corinthians 5:7
As we follow Christ we have to know that we must talk and live faith, so don’t be surprised when circumstances come your way that require you to exercise your faith.
Now is the time to live by faith.
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