The Importance of Faith

Faith is an intangible commodity. It is not something you can see or touch. It is rather something you feel deep in your being. To have faith is to know and hope for what you can’t see. Faith in humans is usually disappointing, but faith in God reaps peace and strength. In the Bible Jesus told many people that their faith healed them. It would seem that faith was very important in Jesus’ ministry. It still is important even today, over 2,000 years after He walked the earth as a man. In your life today you may have a lack of faith; that is the norm for most of us. Raising a family, dealing with bills, worry about our health or money, working, and taking online classes can all sap our energy and our strength. We need faith to keep going and keep up with everything we must do.

One example (Luke 8:48) of faith is the story of the woman who had been suffering from a bleeding condition most of her adult life. She heard that Jesus was passing through town and made her way through the crowd just to touch His robe. As soon as she got a hold of His robe he knew it and turned around. He asked who had touched Him and the woman came forward and said it was her. He told her that her faith had healed her. It had and the bleeding stopped.

Another example of faith is the soldier who had a dying son at home. He asked Jesus to heal his son and Jesus told him to go home, his son was healed because of the father’s faith in Him. The disciples asked Jesus to increase their faith. (Luke 17:5) Even the men who walked with Jesus knew faith was important. Jesus told them if they had the faith of a mustard seed they could command a mountain to move and it would. How awesome would that be?

Today faith can keep us from feeling hopeless and falling into despair. It always amazes me to talk to people who have no faith. They are in this world, completely on their own and have no one to believe in. If something goes wrong in their lives they have to deal with it themselves. To me this would be an empty and depressing way to live. I know from personal experience that faith has brought me through my darkest hours and will keep me going throughout my life. Faith in God and the power of Jesus helps us to have hope when it seems nothing will go right. I could write several blog posts about how God has pulled me and my family through seemingly impossible situations where we could not humanly see a way out of them.

If you need faith in your life, I would encourage you to pray for an increase of your faith and read your Bible. In it you will find encouragement, peace and hope. There are several tools online to help you study the Bible. One of my favorite is Heartlight Ministries. They also have a Bible search tool I use all of the time to search for scriptures. Have faith my friend, it’s free and it works.