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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
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I cannot think of anything that is more important in our daily lives than faith. Without that faith it is impossible—not difficult—impossible to please God. {Heb.11:6} As scripture also reveals, real faith comes only from hearing God, then believing in our hearts—not our minds—and confessing with our mouths that Jesus is Lord as the apostle Paul wrote in his letter to the Romans. {Rom.10:9-10,17}

That real faith can only come from outside of you, from the Lord. Jesus is the author and perfecter of our faith. {Heb.12:2} While we can come boldly before the throne of grace and make our requests known that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need, our hearts should cause us to imitate Jesus as we are told to do. Even Jesus Himself did exactly that when He was about to go to the cross. He prayed “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours be done.” {Lk.22:42}

Our faith will lead us to, and empower us to be imitators of God, {Eph.5:1} having the same attitude in ourselves which was also in Christ Jesus. {Php.2:5} It is not about what you or I wish would happen but saying “Nevertheless!” What He desires will happen. That requires and makes possible for us to be living and doing the eternal Word of God that has been written on the tablets of our hearts. {Jer.31:33}

The world generally says that we have five senses: hearing, sight, touch, smell and taste. The Word on the other hand tells us that the mature believer can eat the solid food of the word because they have their senses trained to discern between good and evil {Heb.5:14}—a sixth sense so to speak.

– Our hearing lets us hear the voice of the Lord so we can do all things in faith
– Our sight provides the ability to see the hand of God in all creation and know the promise that Jesus made in the Sermon on the Mount saying, ‘Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God {Mat;5:8}
– Our sense of touch should lead us like the woman who had a hemorrhage for 12 years to reach out and touch the hem of His garment {Mar.5:25-29}
– Our sense of smell is an air cleaner in this very, very stinky world that allows us to smell the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valleys and know the fullness of God’s love for us {Son .2:1}
– And last, but hardly least, our sense of taste was given us so that we might ‘taste and see that the Lord is good’. {Ps.34:8} Job spoke of the Lord’s words being more than his necessary food {Job 23:12} and Jesus has said that His food was to do the will of His Father. {Jn.4:34}

As Hebrews 11 continues to say in the second verse, ‘For by it (faith) the men of old gained approval’ and so can we. And that should most certainly be our desire, not ‘stuff’ or ‘things’ but the approval of God. It is very important to remember this so we are not tripped up by the schemes of the devil as we walk through this day.

“Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— for we walk by faith, not by sight—” (2 Corinthians 5:6-7)

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