Being men of Faith

Whenever I hear a sermon or teaching about faith and being a people of faith, I always get a wierd feeling in the pit of my stomache. I wasn’t sure why for a long time and a little while ago, God gave me the first piece of the puzzle to figuring out why.

So often we are taught that we need to have the faith to “move mountains”. We say if we had just a little bit of faith, we could move the mountains. We are always told that we need to have more and more faith, that we need to step up our faith. I am not saying this is a bad thing, but the underlining attitude often is this faith that will heal people or whatever is the only thing that matters. We need to step up our faith so that people can be healed of greater illnesses. I don’t think this is what God intended for us. The New Testament makes it pretty clear that we have nothing to do with any healing or miraculous movement of God. So what is this lifestyle of faith really about?

I want to equate faith with trust, which is a valid thing to do since they are synonyms. So really it is my trust, my trust in God that being a man of faith is about. My faith, my trust, is what allows me to do the things God asks me to do. It isn’t what allows me to heal people or raise large amounts of money. It is about doing what God is asking, even when it sounds crazy.

But how do we build this faith? How do I become a man of more faith, more trust? By living a lifestyle of faithfulness. We strengthen our faith by living a lifestyle of faithfulness. I’m not really sure what that looks like or how it works, but I really feel that that is what God is telling me right now. That I need to build my faith by living a life of faithfulness.

I am still working out how these 2 things are interconnected and how one builds the other., but I challenge you to live a lifestyle of faithfulness.  I challenge myself to live a lifestyle of faithfulness.

~ by Alex W. on September 28, 2007.