Why Faith Is A Must

Our faith has only one object. That object is a person. Because we are poor and needy we exist in a state of fluctuation and insecurity while we are in this body in this finite realm. We experience the pain of all of the people who are faithlessly questioning our faith. That really does create more of a deli-ma because we are always insecure in our own ways. With this war going on inside of us that is pressing us and the war going on outside of us pressing us we are left to be desperate not being able to grow beyond the failure of being fully devoted to Him. So what is our response to this poor state both inward and outward? How can we experience strength and proof to those around us that we are devoted to the object of our faith with a confidence that wells up from inside of us and is evident to those around us. We are so in a state of insecurity that we fluctuate in our confidence, and in that distress that we so often experience we are left to cry out to Him all day long. Our faith is so tied to our devotion to Him that we have no confidence to gain His mercy unless we are left to seek it all day long. We are so easily led astray from Him that He must be all in all or not all at all. Our devotion is tied to how we rest in Him. Our devotion is only experienced when we are so fully convinced that unless we have all of Him we are most miserable. 

So that after our resting in Him in our helplessness we want so much to experience that joy in the Holy Spirit that only He can create in us. We so want to know the joy of the Lord that we get focused on Christ in crying out for mercy all day long. This will result in our experiencing that joy. Christ is the eternal God. Just as He has caused us to close with Him as our only hope and devotion so we are the object of His love. Our experience of being poor and needy is really a blessing because of our experience as fallen sinners we are so easily led to believe that there is something in us that is good enough to merit His love. But seeing that He is eternal and beyond our ability to be faithful we rest in Christ who is always faithful and we are not. Our devotion is dependent on Him being loving, faithful, and full of mercy. It is the object of our faith that makes the experience of our believing so sweet. The devoted connection that we have in faith is His bigness magnetizing that connection by His love being felt and rested in by us. In His devoted covenant we experience a devotion to Him that keeps us hungering for more of Him.

 Now we know that unless we have that experience our faith will only be dulled, and useless. Unless we know and meditate on His love and faithfulness to us as our being the object of His love for us we will only be dulling our devotion to Him. We can experience a deep devotion by looking to Him and resting in Him in His word and there is never a wearing out of that devotion. His love is endless, His faithfulness is ever expanding, as far as the east is from the west. His word is alive and is always a present comfort in our time of need. His counsel is new every morning. It is so real that our relationship to our world is as if He is our friend standing with us in the midst of that constant derision. He is just so real that there is always a third person in all of our physical horizontal relationships. 

Yes , our resting in Him is having His presence present with us, feeling Him surrounding us, sensing Him near, drawing out of us a devotion of a friend that is as real as our world. When we talk to Him as we walk with Him we can ask Him to give us a sign of His goodness in a really practical way. If we really believe Him to be our all in all then we really believe Him to be devoted as a friend in all of our circumstances. See our circumstances are His way of communicating to us His faithfulness. Just as a friend comes to our rescue, so He controls our circumstances so that in experiencing that devotion to Him goes beyond any other devotion to any other person. We are so devoted to Him that He fills all of our experience. We only see Him, groan for Him, plead with Him, feel the joy of salvation in Him. We can be fully assured that what is not seen will be made manifest to those around us. Our eternal advocate will manifest Himself on our behalf to make a display of His eternal devotion to working all devoted qualities , so that our devotion will be only alive in His devotion.