"It is given to us by God the Holy Spirit, and until we have it grace can not be ignited in the souls of men." (Matt Chandler)
But what exactly is faith? Hebrews 11 says that faith is the assurance of the things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
And what is hope? It is a state of discontentment. If we hope for more money some day is because we are not content with what we have right now. If we hope to some day be married is because we are not, if we hope some day to have a job is because we don’t have one. If we are not content is because we know there has to be something better, something beyond our reach and we want to have it. Discontent is the hope that there is something more, that there is something greater, that is unseen. Faith is such a beautiful thing because when this hope becomes a desperate cry that we need Jesus, that He is so much bigger and that only in Him we can find true life and meaning we draw near to Him.
Don’t you think that the worst thing that can happen to you is to be content, to be rich, and to have peace? With contentment in your life you do not have that hope that is the foundational piece of our faith.
By faith death is not an enemy, but it becomes our friend and just like Enoch we will know that the whole purpose of our creation is to be next to Jesus, we know that when we die we would go home where we belong.
By faith we have the capability to follow the absurd just like Noah did by making an
Fear not to embrace discontentment as a friend, and may God make you restlessness push you into him and in him be able to find the assurance of the hope that put us in this path, in this life, in this faith.
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