Each day that goes by leaves me wondering what faith means. As I reflected on the word faith, I came up with an acronym for the word.
F=Forgiven
A=As
I=I
T=Trust
H=Him!
So what exactly does this acronym have to do with Faith? I believe that God wants us to trust Him which is part of faith. In the book of Mark chapter 2:3-5 tells us: “Some men came, bringing to Him a paralytic, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and, after digging through it, lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” ”
So trusting Him and having the strong faith to do what seemed impossible because of all the obstacles standing in their way, gave the paralytic more than what he probably could even imagine. Jesus not only healed his paralysis, but He forgave him of his sins.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. So to me trusting in Him is part of faith and as I trust Him, I am forgiven because that is why Jesus died, to forgive all of us of our sins. God loves us so much that He allowed His only begotten Son to die for all of our sins so we could all have eternal life. He loves me and you and everyone that has ever lived and all those who will live after us.
This realization of what faith means and my thoughts on faith today leaves me in awe of God’s love for us.
I would like it if you would leave your inspirational thoughts about what faith means to you and what you think about my idea of what faith is.
May today this acronym that I came up with inspire you to know that not only me, but all of us can say: With faith I am ‘forgiven as I trust Him’.
And of course, as always, no matter what, don’t lose faith and never give up!
I look forward to hearing from you below.
In His Love,
DL Faith