Thursday; April 18
What is faith? Most religions and spiritual people use the word “faith”, but what does it mean? The Bible seeks to help us out when it is defined as, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1); but what does that mean? I am sure a lot smarter people have offered a commentary to this definition, but as I look at it, I see a couple things: First, faith allows us to believe in an unseen God. We don’t have to experience God through one of our five senses to know that He exists. What’s more, we don’t have to be able to prove everything the Bible says about Him – we are willing to accept His story as told in His book at face value. Second, faith allows us to hold out hope that what the Bible promises will happen. The Scripture as a treasure trove of great stories and biblical history, but the thing that offers the greatest hope are the promises it makes – specifically, those promises of salvation and eternity. We are told by