Faith is total confidence or trust in an object. You must have faith in order to survive in this world. You get aboard an airplane because you trust the pilot to get you where you’re going. Throughout our lives, we can invest our faith in a variety of people, places, and things, but when it comes to things that will last forever, we must be careful to make the appropriate choice.
A.W. Tozer
“I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today,” says A.W. Tozer, a renowned Christian writer and thinker, on faith. If we just have enough faith, we will succeed in some way. Thus the common chant goes. Your beliefs are irrelevant. Just have faith. All of this ignores the fact that faith is only useful when it interacts with the truth; when it is allowed to rest on lies, it can and frequently does result in eternal misery. Because believing alone is insufficient, we also need to believe the correct thing about the appropriate One.
Thus, the focal point of our faith is paramount. Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. Let not your heart be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me.” Through me, alone, can anyone approach the Father (John 14:1, 6). Our faith is not the correct kind if it is not based in God via Jesus.
Complete trust and confidence in God
A Christian’s total confidence and trust in God and what [He has accomplished through Jesus] is their faith. Faith is unafraid and unquestioning. “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen,” according to Hebrews 11:1. But faith is not conjecture. This is not a blind jump into the unknown. It is supported by unambiguous historical data. “But these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ,” the apostle John states. (John 20:31).
Active obedience to God’s word
Faith results in proactive submission to God’s word. Faith is more than simply an idea; it is an idea that motivates someone to take action, put in effort, and follow instructions. This promotes Christian unity and the desire to share the gospel, which frequently results in persecution.
The gift of eternal life that comes with having faith is what makes it so wonderful: according to John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
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