Faith to Live By – Part 1
Dr RJ Sing · 2 min read
“What is faith? It is the confident assurance that something we want is going to happen. It is the certainty that what we hope for is waiting for us, even though we cannot see it up ahead.”
Faith – it simply means to confide in, so as to be secure without fear. To flee for refuge or take shelter in. It’s to believe or take one at his word, a change of confidence / sincere trust in the unfailing Goodness of God, and a total commitment of your life and will into the keeping of God.
Paul in Romans 4:17, expresses true faith as an attribute of God: “As it is written, I have made you the father of many nations. [He was appointed our father] in the sight of God in Whom he believed, Who gives life to the dead and speaks of the nonexistent things that [He has foretold and promised] as if they [already] existed.”
Faith is a union of assurance and conviction, the counting or reckoning a thing done as though it were already done and it doesn’t have to see before it believes. It laughs at possibilities and all circumstances, that may be contrary to it, and counts the thing done, that it asks from God. Faith is not swayed to believe God, only when things seem possible, it is not moved to waver or question in the least when things seem to go contrary to what has been asked and faith persists right along counting the impossible as possible, counting as done the things that are not seen and counting the things that are not as though they were. Faith is also an aggressive active word.
From the May 2017 issue, themed I Am Abounding and Overflowing on Every side.
