Alan writes at the end of this post -
" As I told Mark in a comment, I’ve started to think more and more of “faith” as trust. How much do I trust God? Do I trust God in spite of anything that may or may not happen with my life?"
I like A.W.Tozers comment: “True faith is not passive but active. It requires that we meet certain conditions, that we allow the teachings of Christ to dominate our total lives from the moment we believe.”
Words are so important, actually the meaning and understanding of words are so important. Over the past few years I try to always look up the definition of word to help me understand it better, because we all come with our own understanding of what a word might mean but when we dig deeper we see a we may have had it wrong. Faith is definitely one of those words. Another word I have "issue" with is believe. So many of us say we believe in something yet there is no action/evidence to back up that statement. I think the word trust could sometimes be used in the place of believe and we would get a clearer understanding of what it means to believe.
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