The Three Furies of Heaven – Faith

Greetings Dear Reader,

“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” 

I know that I have written often about the need and value of faith.  Today I am pondering how faith pursues us.  We do not wish to have faith.  We would rather know.  We would rather have all things revealed to us.  

The problem is that to live justly we must live by faith.  We do not know all the answers to anything.  We think we know.  We think we do not need faith but we employ it every day.  We exercise faith in other people and things constantly. 

We sit on chairs, drive over bridges, and accept food processed and made by strangers.  Faith is part of our existence whether we like it or not.  Jesus demands that we follow him in faith.  He insists that engage with him through faith in his promises. 

I continuously hear demands for evidence that God is a reality.  Doubt is not wrong.  It is the other side of faith.  We do, however, come to the point where we must accept Jesus by faith.  He pursues us for this.  He manages the entire world for this purpose: that we will come to the place where we put our faith in his plan for us.

It is by grace that we are redeemed through faith.  Jesus explains that the blessing come from believing without seeing.  Faith pursues us begging us to see who Christ is and to follow him.  It is what the journey is for me.  Faith has never failed me where Christ is concerned.

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.”

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