One of the greatest treasures that you can find in life is someone that believes in you. One of the best things that you can do for yourself is to believe in yourself, in your dreams, in your hopes, in your life. One of the best gifts that you can give to your kids is to believe in them. We are living in a time when it is getting harder and harder to find something or someone to truly believe in. We are living in a time when it is getting harder and harder to find someone else that will take the time to believe in each of us as individuals. How important is believing? The people who find cures for our diseases would have never fought to find the cures if they had not believed that a cure exsisted. They did not see the cure, could not find it, but they searched for it until they did. When they found these cures they did not recognize them until they tested it. When they got the desired result, they said, "We have found the cure." They knew they had the cure when they saw the impact it had on the disease. This is how Salvation is today. You can be looking at the cure, and you do everytime you see Jesus. You will not recognize it until you experience the impact that Jesus has upon your life. A pessimist or agnostic towards medical research would have a hard time finding a cure to AIDES or CANCER. The idea that you want to see proof before you spent the research dollars, would never work in this kind of lab. You have to have faith. Faith that you will eventually find the cure. You have to spend millions and millions of dollars, and go through failure after failure, but they keep searching for a cure, because they believe they will eventually find one. Spirituality also works, by faith.
So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, "It is through faith that a righteous person has life." Gal. 3:11
How important is faith? How angry does it make you when someone says they have no faith in you. I have found with working with kids that when a child doubts your words it is usually because someone has let them down before. We are following the devil when we do just whatever our flesh wants to do. But this is how the flesh works, it disappoints. For instance, drugs promise alot, and are easy to get, and easy to do, but when you get picked up by the cops, drugs abandon you then. They turn on you and make you miserable as your body goes into fits because you didn't get the drug. Drugs offer alot, but deliver very little. They promise you pleasure but leave you in misery. Drugs never deliver what they promise but bring destruction in the end. Drugs will demand more and more of your life until there is nothing left. This is the way of the world in general. We are promised much, but receive so little. We begin to lose faith as we get older. We start to lose Faith in people, faith that goodness exsist, faith in our dreams, faith that a better day is ahead.
This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, "It is through faith that a righteous person has life." Rom. 1:17
This great country was built by faith. Try starting a business without using any faith and you will not succeed. Try raising kids without faith, and you will always be upset with them. Walt Disney has always said that he built the magic kingdom by an enduring faith that never let him give up in spite every obstacle that he faced. You can't accomplish much without faith. God knows the importance and power of faith. Faith will cause you to spend your resources to get a desired result, even long before you have any proof that what you desire will even work. God has built his Kingdom on faith. He has placed faith as the key to finding him.
And my righteous ones will live by faith. But I will take no pleasure in anyone who turns away." Heb. 10:38
We use faith, and belief for every good thing in life. Why should it surprise us that we would have to use faith to approach God. The greatest thing you can ever say to someone else is "I believe in you." We don't see the wind, but we see the effects of it. You cannot see God, but the effects of His exsistance are all around us. What is the powr of faith? How many people have impacted this generation like Walt Disney has done? Having faith to believe in something is not easy, because we have to get up and accomplish our dreams, we no longer have an excuse to push them aside when we beleive. It is not our good works that make us right with God, it is our faith IN HIM that impresses Him.
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. Heb. 11:6
