Faith, we acted on, can enable people to act courageously in trials and believe in the impossible. Through it was can experience God’s intervention for miracles, like Peter walking on water, Noah building the ark, and even the bleeding woman’s healing. Faith is a path to spiritual growth, a foundation for salvation. It means to live a life being what is thought possible.
Faith empowers belief when things seem impossible. It leads to acts of divine power. There’s a young man who started coming to my church about a month ago. He was struggling with alcoholism. A few weeks ago he said the “sinners’ prayer” and last week he was baptized he chose to give his life to Jesus and walk with him. He had faith that God could help him. When he was baptized there were only a few other people to watch him promise to walk with God. Only a few people from the church. I felt that as a church, we should have been there to support him. I can only say for myself how I would feel if I were struggling and chose to be baptized and the people who were supposed to be there for support were not. I can’t say that would give me much hope. I choose to have faith that this young man will be rid of his alcoholism completely. And will support him in any way possible.
I see many people growing weary of doing good. Galatians 6:9-19 encourages us to trust in a future harvest. Too often we can have an overwhelming feeling to give up. The world is becoming a dark place, and we are called to be a light.
From Pity to Praise 