Get Your Faith Straight - Part 2

Get Your Faith Straight - Part 2

 Have you ever been around a person who says they have faith, but you could never tell it by what they choose to do?  I have met people who say they are a Christians, but would never know it by how they live.  I know we are not perfect and we all have struggles.. but ultimately,  people who love God will choose to do the things God loves.  A person of faith will walk by faith and his faith will bring birth to good works.  True faith will stand in agreement with the bible and is evidence of a true relationship to Christ.

To say you are a Christian but not follow the bible, is like handing an empty cup to a thirsty person.  Nothing you could ever offer them would satisfy because they need water and you don't have it.

Getting your faith straight would require making sure you are really saved.  I have heard leaders say they were Christians,  but they help the devil openly  in the things for which they stand.  They stand for the very things that have brought God's  judgment upon other nations in the past. The things God speaks against in His Word.    I have heard people of other faiths say they were Christians, but teach doctrine that does not even exist in scripture and  is contrary to scripture.  In both the cases I mentioned,  they would say they are people of faith.  Yes maybe they have faith, it may even be great faith, but having faith in the wrong things will not be blessed by God.

To think you are saved is not good enough, you can know you are saved.  I was reminded by God, just last night of something I heard a very long time ago. It slipped out of my lips, even though I hadn't thought about it in years.  It was a saying I once heard a preacher say," It's not a hope so salvation, It's a know so salvation.

When you know your saved it will show and if you know it, you will show it, by how you live and what you do.  When you love God , there will be evidence in your life because when Jesus lives in your heart

it will shine forth in a dark world.  Just like a lighthouse on a hill showing people the way.

1John 5:13

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

Father God, 

Help true believers to love you by our behavior and forgive us if we have not loved you, as we should, in times past.  Open the eyes of those who have professed Christianity but never possessed true faith in Christ.  Help others to understand that they may KNOW that they can belong to you as  new born children of God.  Show them they can have assurance of heaven through Christ and his finished work at Calvary.

In Christ Jesus I Pray This, Amen 

Susan Y Nikitenko

July 30th, 2014

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