Build Your Faith
“But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit” Jude 1:20.
Apostle Jude places the responsibility of building yourself up spiritually and strengthening your faith squarely on you.
There are two kinds of faith: mechanical faith and intentional faith.
Each time you flip on a light switch you are exercising mechanical faith. But when you face the unknown, you need intentional faith, a faith that believes God to do ‘…exceedingly abundantly above all that you ask or think…’ Ephesians 3:20.
If you are proactive, your faith will grow. If you are passive, it will not.
Like the action of water rushing against a riverbank, there is an erosion of faith that comes simply from living every day. If you don’t do anything to secure and strengthen your faith it begins to deteriorate.
Christ told the church at Ephesus to remember the heights from which they had fallen Revelation 2:5. That’s a strange thing to say, because if you fell from a significant height, don’t you think you would ordinarily remember it? But not if the fall was so gradual that you didn’t notice it.
So ask yourself: ‘Have those who know me best begun to notice that joy has gone out of my step, that peace has gone out of my spirit and the Word of God out of my conversations?’
Faith is like a muscle; if you don’t exercise it consistently it will atrophy and become powerless.
So the word for you is: ‘…Strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die…’ Revelation 3:2.