Diving Deeper – Final Thoughts

Greetings Dear Reader,

Deeper faith is attainable but it is not free.  God promises that if we lack faith he will help our unbelief.  He wants us to find him through faith.  He works out our relationship with him through faith.

If you think about all the things that people try to debunk in the Bible they are all things that require faith.  We demand sight where God demands that we have faith and then we wonder why our faith is weak.

Everything I am is subject to what I believe.  My Grandfather used to say that “you do what you believe.  Everything else is just religious talk.”  If we believe we will act.  More importantly we will act out of faith.  I have failed to live what I believe in ways that have hurt others and the cost is not yet counted.

If I hope to have deeper faith I must use my faith to follow more closely what Christ calls us to do.  I must realize that faith is the engine that runs our ability to love, be kind, give, and care.  If I try to do it without faith my strength comes from pride and God resists the proud.  He gives grace to the humble.

By faith I follow.  By faith I live.  Lord I believe please You help my unbelief.

By Faith – Michael Card

By faith one was commended

For the sacrifice he made

Another out of holy fear

Built an ark the world to save

Another left his homeland

And as a stranger he'd reside

But none received the promise then

And so, in faith, they died.

Others conquered kingdoms

Quenched the fury of the flames

Some made strong in battle

Some were raised to life again

But many more were martyred

Midst the crowds loud clamoring

By faith they would not bow the knee

Nor kiss the emperor's ring

Faith understands and offers

It assures and calms our fears

It can shut the mouths of lions

And make sense of scars and tears

We persevere in hope

And with conscience clean and clear

We walk this fallen wilderness

With Salvation's Pioneer

Being sure of what we hope for

Seeing what is yet unseen

A universe from nothingness

New life where none had been

The known made from unknowable

And hope for the comfortless

Who hear and hold on firmly to

The faith that they possess

So fix your eyes upon the Champion

As you seek to run the race

Understanding that He cheers you on

As you long for His embrace

So hold on and do not grow weary

Of the faith that you profess

Remembering that you are ringed around

By this cloud of witnesses

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store."