2 Thessalonian 1: 2-5
What is the manifestation of a growing faith?
In most churches, people are just talking about faith and not practicing it. In fact, Christians are becoming more like scholars than Christ-like. Real faith is now an extinct part of churches and Christians.
Paul talks about a growing faith and the abundance of love. Why? Because there is a direct link between the two. You cannot separate real faith from love. Faith produces love, and love produces faith. If you love the Lord, you will learn to have faith in Him; and while your faith grows, you will learn to love more.
So love is the manifestation of faith?
Yes, but love is a very broad term.
Loving the Lord is more than enough. Some would mistake love to the Lord as to their giving to the church. Some would even mistake it with their soulwinning efforts. And so on.
This should be the case. Loving the Lord is more than that. It involves the entirety of a person’s life. It involves the “everything” of a person.
If we want our faith to grow, we ought to learn to love the Lord with all our heart, mind, strength.
2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth.
4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
What is the manifestation of a growing faith?
In most churches, people are just talking about faith and not practicing it. In fact, Christians are becoming more like scholars than Christ-like. Real faith is now an extinct part of churches and Christians.
Paul talks about a growing faith and the abundance of love. Why? Because there is a direct link between the two. You cannot separate real faith from love. Faith produces love, and love produces faith. If you love the Lord, you will learn to have faith in Him; and while your faith grows, you will learn to love more.
So love is the manifestation of faith?
Yes, but love is a very broad term.
Loving the Lord is more than enough. Some would mistake love to the Lord as to their giving to the church. Some would even mistake it with their soulwinning efforts. And so on.
This should be the case. Loving the Lord is more than that. It involves the entirety of a person’s life. It involves the “everything” of a person.
If we want our faith to grow, we ought to learn to love the Lord with all our heart, mind, strength.
No comments:
Post a Comment