One of the most important aspect in a Christian life is to Believe that God exists. This is so essential for everything with which a Christian do, his world view, his life style, his passion, his purpose etc everything depends upon the fact that he Believes in God the Creator.
The Bible starts by starting God created, but never mentions about the existence of God as a doubt or question.
Hebrews 11:6 NIV
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Faith Vs Facts
To believe in the existence of God requires a great leap of Faith, but it does not end there. Without Facts it is empty. We see many facts that draws out to a conclusion that God exists, but facts alone cannot prove it, it requires Faith. We are in the middle of the large line in one extend it is Faith and the other its Facts. We swing along these paths and we find ourselves confused sometimes. We doubt and we ask questions. Apostle Peter did not deny the fact that God exists, he neither denied that Jesus is the Son of God, but he denied the fact that he is going to lie, he denies thrice.
Faith Vs Works
Faith without work is death, but work alone will not get us Salvation, Eternal Life. Now Faith at one end and Work at another end and we are at the middle swinging, we see that it took great faith for the woman who had blood issue for 18 long years, but it is also the work that she took an initiative to touch the hem of the Jesus's Garment.
Jesus Christ did not allow his followers to doubt even an iota, he asked his disciple Thomas to touch and put the finger in the hole. So that he not only Believes but also will be a witness of Christ in the country of India.
It is not the facts, the answers for all our questions, the solution for all our problems. In fact if we were to look at life in the beginning, when God created Adam and Eve it was everything that they wanted to know was given, the speech, the knowledge of naming trees, plants, birds, animals, etc. but because of the sin we got up in the middle of a chaos sometime feeling very much confident and sometime feeling insecure. It was the same with the Disciples of Jesus, When Jesus said, "Where is your Faith?"
I wonder what the disciples were looking into, made them to ask "“Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and water, and they obey Him!” rather than answering Jesus.
Now Faith being one of the most important aspect of a Christian Life, there is something which is much more great and more important that needs to be understood.
When God created everything, most importantly Human Beings, he did not create and then found Love, it is because of Love he created them. Love is not something that was found over a period of time. Love is eternal, God is Love.
1 John 4:8 NIV
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
It is not even the Love that as humans we understand, we understand it as an exchange. But if that is the kind of Love we understood, we ask questions like, why should Jesus die for our sins? But if we understand just a little meaning of that True Love, we will stop asking such questions and start accepting the Son, we will allow him in our heart, we dine with him, for we know that he has prepared us a place in heaven.
This is why Apostle Paul had to write a whole chapter about Love - I cor 13 and at the end has to say this.
1 Corinthians 13:13 NIV
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
May we never forget his Love for us, may we never regret to accept his Love for us. May we never understand the mystery of his Love, but we never fail to Love him, because he Loved us first.
The Bible starts by starting God created, but never mentions about the existence of God as a doubt or question.
Hebrews 11:6 NIV
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Faith Vs Facts
To believe in the existence of God requires a great leap of Faith, but it does not end there. Without Facts it is empty. We see many facts that draws out to a conclusion that God exists, but facts alone cannot prove it, it requires Faith. We are in the middle of the large line in one extend it is Faith and the other its Facts. We swing along these paths and we find ourselves confused sometimes. We doubt and we ask questions. Apostle Peter did not deny the fact that God exists, he neither denied that Jesus is the Son of God, but he denied the fact that he is going to lie, he denies thrice.
Faith Vs Works
Faith without work is death, but work alone will not get us Salvation, Eternal Life. Now Faith at one end and Work at another end and we are at the middle swinging, we see that it took great faith for the woman who had blood issue for 18 long years, but it is also the work that she took an initiative to touch the hem of the Jesus's Garment.
Jesus Christ did not allow his followers to doubt even an iota, he asked his disciple Thomas to touch and put the finger in the hole. So that he not only Believes but also will be a witness of Christ in the country of India.
It is not the facts, the answers for all our questions, the solution for all our problems. In fact if we were to look at life in the beginning, when God created Adam and Eve it was everything that they wanted to know was given, the speech, the knowledge of naming trees, plants, birds, animals, etc. but because of the sin we got up in the middle of a chaos sometime feeling very much confident and sometime feeling insecure. It was the same with the Disciples of Jesus, When Jesus said, "Where is your Faith?"
I wonder what the disciples were looking into, made them to ask "“Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and water, and they obey Him!” rather than answering Jesus.
Luke 8:25New King James Version (NKJV)
25 But He said to them, “Where is your faith?”
And they were afraid, and marveled, saying to one another, “Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and water, and they obey Him!”
Now Faith being one of the most important aspect of a Christian Life, there is something which is much more great and more important that needs to be understood.
When God created everything, most importantly Human Beings, he did not create and then found Love, it is because of Love he created them. Love is not something that was found over a period of time. Love is eternal, God is Love.
1 John 4:8 NIV
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
It is not even the Love that as humans we understand, we understand it as an exchange. But if that is the kind of Love we understood, we ask questions like, why should Jesus die for our sins? But if we understand just a little meaning of that True Love, we will stop asking such questions and start accepting the Son, we will allow him in our heart, we dine with him, for we know that he has prepared us a place in heaven.
This is why Apostle Paul had to write a whole chapter about Love - I cor 13 and at the end has to say this.
1 Corinthians 13:13 NIV
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
May we never forget his Love for us, may we never regret to accept his Love for us. May we never understand the mystery of his Love, but we never fail to Love him, because he Loved us first.
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