The One Part 5: Faith!

“As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” – Ephesians 4:1-6 NIV

We believe in someone or something because we know that person or thing is trustworthy. Therefore, knowledge establishes trust unless the person or something seems to be not trustworthy. For example, I trust my spiritual mother because I know her and where her passion lies. Her passion is in the Lord. It seemed like we have same or similar passion in Him. I think what she mentors me has been the same thing that the Spirit has been prompting me. After several years, she believed that I can be a projection and a sound guy for monthly prayer gatherings. This is not only because she thought I was good at technology, but also because she knew that I was in training to be a projectionist of Windsor Park Baptist Church and probably she has been knowing that I was a prayer warrior as well. Although I do not serve as a projectionist on Sunday evening services, I serve as a media guy on monthly prayer gatherings. People have to know each other to believe in each other.

It is like that with the Lord. We cannot believe in God completely until we have been knowing Him intimately. Although we cannot know Him completely, we are able to rely His good deeds and miracles to believe in Him. Although I am not sure that I can write new things in my devotionals as writing same things are probably boring to let others read, I trust God to pour His wisdom into my head so that I can continue to write devotionals refreshingly. Because the Spirit of God has been empowering me to write devotionals, I can rely on that continuously. To put this simply, I need to depend on Him for His wisdom to write devotionals. Furthermore, John 3:16-18 stresses that whoever believes in Jesus Christ will have eternal life. However, while Jesus was praying to God for His disciples and future generations, He declared, “Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” (John 17:3) Therefore, knowing God through Jesus equals to believing in God through Jesus.