A Step Beyond Faith Part 1

What might Jesus say about our faith today?

Oh my children how my heart yearns to draw you closer to me, to be able to give you what you need. I am here waiting. Why can’t you see me or hear me? You still hold on to too much of this world. You say you are followers of my Son Jesus, yet you refuse to give yourselves wholly over to me through Him. You want to hold on to little pieces of the world around you. I say that until you are willing to die to all flesh offers, you cannot know me fully.

My people I came down from heaven as a final sacrifice for sins. While I was here I taught, lived and walked among your fathers. Do you not think I was tempted? I was, yes I was God, but I was also human with a human will. I did not yield to temptation because of the love for my Father I had had within me. I resisted my human will to only follow the will of my Father. I taught that you must love as I love you. Imitate me the one you say you follow. You say that this is hard or can’t be done. Do you think I would have taught something that could not be accomplished?

You must stop thinking strictly with your human nature. If you say you try but always fail and fall back into the things of the world, you are right. YOU CAN’T do what has been asked of you on your own. You must lean on me for everything. The human will is too weak for things of God and heaven. You must be willing to die daily, meaning your will must die daily in order to walk in my will. This act takes a love that above just faith or anything you know. Yet it is a love that can be attained for it is the love I try to freely give to all who accept it. All that is needed is a willingness and desire to FULLY give yourself over to me and let me fully live in you. I don’t just want to be a part of your life, I want to be in you and all of your life. Lean on me, trust in me I have strength enough for you to always overcome temptations, always keep your heart in mine and your eyes on me.

Faith, what is it? Per the dictionary faith is the belief or trust in, devotion to or trust in somebody or something especially without logical (physical) proof.

Faith is an important part of what it means to be a Christian. I mean the events in the bible took place long before we were born. But out of faith we believe in what the bible says and what the Church teaches. We are imitators of Christ, right? That’s what it means isn’t it, the word Christian.
We start our journey with Christ having faith that he is real and came down from heaven and died on the cross for us, we have faith that what is written in the bible is true. I say faith because base on the definition from above we have not seen God or physically touched Jesus. We live on faith because in our hearts we believe it, and the words prick our hearts with something we don’t quite get but want to learn more.
So now we know it’s through faith all of us start our life in Christ. So faith is something very good to have and a powerful tool. Read Matthew 17:20. “I say to you, if you have the faith as a grain of mustard seed you will say to this mountain move from here to there, and it will move and nothing will be impossible to you.”

But in our walk with Christ why do we stop there, with just faith? Faith is just a beginning. Faith is like to the point where you knocked and Jesus opened the door. You can sense His presence, but you never walk through the opened door. You stand there in the open door with Jesus standing just inside and you never go in. The feeling you have standing at the door is so good and peaceful because with the door open you are feeling Christ’s presence. You need to know that our journey does not stop with just faith.

1 Corinthians 13:1-2. 1.” If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.” 2. “and if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.”
We must move beyond faith into love. Not just an earthly love but a heavenly love. A love that will make us want to give ourselves fully to God.

Matthew 22:37.
37. “You must love the lord your God with all of your heart, and with all of your soul, and with all of your mind”.
We say we are imitators of Christ, yet we say because we are human we can’t love as Christ loves. Doesn’t the bible teach us to love as Christ loves? That’s not just an earthly love, but truly heavenly. God so loved the world he gave His only begotten Son so we could live. Christ so loves His Father that no matter pain he was going to endure he would do it. He even asked His Father that this cup would pass, yet love for his father and us compelled him to follow his Fathers will and not his human weak will. That’s loving with your whole being. So you think you still can’t love like that? Christ said follow me, do you think he would have said this if it weren’t possible?
Part of loving with your whole being is knowing that to try to do anything on your own leads to failure. You must love to a point where all you know to lean and trust in Christ with your life. Know that we are so weak and need Jesus in order to walk in Him wholly and fully. We are weak, but through His strength nothing is impossible.
Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through him who strengthens me” Through prayer, devotion and leaning on Jesus, we can love with a love that draws us into a real relationship with Jesus.

Part 2 to follow