Living by Faith
Hello, Everyone this is my first blog but I wrote for the blog online. The following entry you about to read which I wrote on 04.04.2007 which is relating of what is happening in our soceity today. I know the Lord is a big G-d. The Lord has shown be that he can provide food, money, a job, and lots of wonderful friends & family. Plus, he can heal from cancer. My dad went through cancer last year and I wrote this blog when I was in a time when I was hurting inside. Please read it.
Today, I sitting here in my office at work tonight and being thankful on what the Lord provided in my life. Not just material things. I’m thankful I have awesome friends and family around me. I’m thankful I can write this journal entry and get paid at the same time. I’m thankful I am disease –free. I’m thankful I can walk and breathe without any aid. I’m thankful I can run and shout without any problems. Then, I look around at others like my father and others who can’t do all things of what I can do in my everyday life. Helpless, I may be for them but I truly believe the Lord will heal each individual including my father.
Oswald Chambers said it well in his daily devotion book call “My Utmost for His Highest” concerning with faith: Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led. But it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of faith, not of understanding and reason— a life of knowing Him who calls us to go. Faith is rooted in the knowledge of a Person, and one of the biggest traps we fall into is the belief that if we have faith, God will surely lead us to success in the world.
The final stage in the life of faith is the attainment of character, and we encounter many changes in the process. We feel the presence of God around us when we pray, yet we are only momentarily changed. We tend to keep going back to our everyday ways and the glory vanishes. A life of faith is not a life of one glorious mountaintop experience after another, like soaring on eagles’ wings, but is a life of day— in and day— out consistency; a life of walking without fainting (see Isaiah 40:31 ). It is not even a question of the holiness of sanctification, but of something which comes much farther down the road. It is a faith that has been tried and proved and has withstood the test. Abraham is not a type or an example of the holiness of sanctification, but a type of the life of faith-a faith, tested and true, built on the true God. "Abraham believed God. . ." (Romans 4:3 ).
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Hello, Everyone this is my first blog but I wrote for the blog online. The following entry you about to read which I wrote on 04.04.2007 which is relating of what is happening in our soceity today. I know the Lord is a big G-d. The Lord has shown be that he can provide food, money, a job, and lots of wonderful friends & family. Plus, he can heal from cancer. My dad went through cancer last year and I wrote this blog when I was in a time when I was hurting inside. Please read it.
Today, I sitting here in my office at work tonight and being thankful on what the Lord provided in my life. Not just material things. I’m thankful I have awesome friends and family around me. I’m thankful I can write this journal entry and get paid at the same time. I’m thankful I am disease –free. I’m thankful I can walk and breathe without any aid. I’m thankful I can run and shout without any problems. Then, I look around at others like my father and others who can’t do all things of what I can do in my everyday life. Helpless, I may be for them but I truly believe the Lord will heal each individual including my father.
Oswald Chambers said it well in his daily devotion book call “My Utmost for His Highest” concerning with faith: Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led. But it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of faith, not of understanding and reason— a life of knowing Him who calls us to go. Faith is rooted in the knowledge of a Person, and one of the biggest traps we fall into is the belief that if we have faith, God will surely lead us to success in the world.
The final stage in the life of faith is the attainment of character, and we encounter many changes in the process. We feel the presence of God around us when we pray, yet we are only momentarily changed. We tend to keep going back to our everyday ways and the glory vanishes. A life of faith is not a life of one glorious mountaintop experience after another, like soaring on eagles’ wings, but is a life of day— in and day— out consistency; a life of walking without fainting (see Isaiah 40:31 ). It is not even a question of the holiness of sanctification, but of something which comes much farther down the road. It is a faith that has been tried and proved and has withstood the test. Abraham is not a type or an example of the holiness of sanctification, but a type of the life of faith-a faith, tested and true, built on the true God. "Abraham believed God. . ." (Romans 4:3 ).
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