Faith is Important

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. (Hebrews 11:1). Where is your faith? Is it in the world? Is it in God? Is your faith rooted in Jesus? Our faith is very important in life. No one goes through life without having faith. I am of the opinion that faith is simple. There isn’t really anything about it that is complicated. Faith is simply believing in something or someone we have never seen with our own eyes. If your can has started anytime for a year, is there faith in starting it? No, you already know that more than likely it will. You believe that when you go to start it, it’ll start. There is no faith in starting a reliable car. Faith really isn’t complicated. I said earlier that faith is important in our lives. No one, not even atheists, go through life without faith. 

So, let me ask again, where is your faith? People struggle with having faith in Jesus. They struggle with all things being created by God. But faith is believing in what we can’t see. It is having confidence in what we hope for. Faith in Jesus isn’t really that complicated. In my opinion faith isn’t really a complex subject. You either have faith or you don’t. Faith is choosing to accept something we can’t see or touch. We don’t have to understand it. We just decide to believe. This applies to Jesus as well. There are many things about Jesus that we will not understand about this side of heaven. However, we don’t have to understand in order to have faith. Let’s look at the Theory of Evolution. Would you have faith that it is true and accurate? Even though you don’t understand it? Now look at the Creation Story. Do you have faith in creation? Faith matters!

Jesus, was born of a virgin, walked this earth, was crucified on a cross, and resurrected from the grave. He now sits in heaven at the right hand of God, His Father. Jesus, God in flesh, who came to earth to bring salvation to the world. To provide a way for the forgiveness of sin. One might say it takes a lot of faith to believe all this. But really it doesn’t. It takes less faith than believing that all things evolved from nothing. Faith isn’t in the things we see and understand. Faith is in the unseen. 

Faith isn’t complex. It is simply as the writer of Hebrews says it is. It is having confidence in what we hope for and assurance in what we can’t see.