You’ve done it too, haven’t you? You have gotten caught up in the moment and
declared your unwavering allegiance to Christ and you really meant it. But then, life happens. As we get busy with the mundane routines of
life, we tend to lose our sense of enthusiasm.
We may continue to make faith a real and necessary part of our lives,
but it no longer is the main thing that drives us. We no longer feel like we can lay down our
lives for the Lord.
Enthusiasm is good and necessary, but it
is not enough to make faith work in our lives.
There has to be depth to our faith.
We must develop substance to hold us up and keep us steady in the face
of threats to our faith. If we are not
growing in our faith, the glow will fade and the willingness to go will
go. In order to avoid getting in a place
where our faith can fail us when things get rough, we must do our part at
building it up.
We must be consistently in God’s Word with
open hearts and minds. We must spend
time digging the meat out to chew on. We
must do more than just get by. We must
become students of the Word in order to become who we need to be and a people
whom God approves of. We need more than
a short devotional to jump start our day.
A jump start is good, but there must be more. We must learn to think Biblically about
things by hiding the Word in our hearts and minds. Devotionals are good, I have written a lot of
them, but they are just appetizers, we need to feed our souls a full meal as
well.
Also, we must spend quality time alone
with our Lord. Our faith is strengthened
and grows through our alone time with the Lord.
We desperately need to be in fellowship with Him on a consistent basis. Peter failed the test of his faith because he
failed to stay awake and pray alongside of Jesus is the Garden before His
arrest.
We must also exercise our faith on a
regular basis to keep it strong and healthy.
A faith that is seldom exercised grows soft and flabby; it will never
hold us up in the stormy, trying times of our lives.
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