Faith is Tested Daily

Keep the faith. Once we have faith we must make the decision to keep the faith. It is a decision consciously confirmed from out of our thinking mind and our free will. Nobody can take faith from us. We cannot say our faith has extinguished or evaporated against our will. We can only make the decision either to believe or not to believe. It is not a feeling or a mood that determines whether we have faith or not. It is a reasoned choice. It is as simple as a “yes” to Christ or a “no” to Christ. Once we have faith, it can either grow in strength or wither in weakness. Our faith is tested daily. In fact it is test every moment of our lives. Christian living is faith interacting with the coalface of reality. This interacting creates a tension, a conflict, a test; we often experience trouble, suffering and pain. But through a deep and living faith we experience real joy a foretaste of heaven. We can experience a little bit of heaven n earth, it is fleeting, a pale shadow but all the saints have reached this state. Faith grows by living the faith. Living the faith means believing more and trusting more. No problem or suffering is insurmountable by having more belief and more trust. Our faith must grow, it does not come automatically; otherwise we will remain in perpetual spiritual infancy; helpless, dependent, undeveloped, self seeking for survival, fearful, instinctive, lack of self awareness. Our only survival mechanism is self-pity and moan, groan and cry out to the world for sustenance and comfort. Most of us grow up physically but emotionally and spiritually we are like stunted acorns.  God says you are more then a spiritual infant, he wants us to grow up and mature spiritually. Faith is an intentional decision; so is spiritual growth. We choose spiritual growth. We must decide to grow, we must plan to grow, we must push to grow, we must fight to grow, and we must persist at growing.