Biblical Faith -VS- The World’s Faith

If faith is what empowered and guides a follower of Christ, we should expect to find a counterfeit form of this faith that the evil one uses to confuse him. The world’s version of faith can be recognized by different coats that it wears. However, its deceptive heart is essentially the same throughout the generations of human mankind. We need to ask two questions.

1. What does today’s version of counterfeit faith look like?

Biblical faith shapes the lives of God’s people. Faith is not the end but the means. God is the end. Faith allows man’s soul to connect with God in Christ. From this heavenly faith, his earthly life is changed.

The world believes faith shapes their lives too, but they have something else in mind. Rooted in humanism, their faith is dependent upon what they can dream up. Their faith is limited to man itself. This faith is limited to man himself. Even their decoded religions and philosophies are but reflections of their own heart. Because of this, his announced life goals are to reach himself. They need to word harder at dreaming, and being more inspired, so that their faith might develop to its full potential

Today the breeding of confidence in man is more structured than ever. This means we have yet so see the worlds worst. Just like the schools of Al-Quids have produced thousands of men who are willing to kill themselves so they could kill others, so our educational systems are breeding humanists. They do this both through destroying allegiance to their parents and by emphasizing self-esteem and self-confidence. Advances in medicine, science and knowledge have regularly deceived man so that now he is inflated into a balloon of pride. Man is more confident that ever that he can handle whatever comes. There is a wish that man would humble himself a bit and state at the mess that we are standing in.

We only have to view the horizon of history to see some of the greatest ‘reaches’ of man. For example; the world idealized utopias are but secular versions of heaven. They build upon many biblical principles but substitute man for God. God is stripped along with His Holiness. Mao killed millions; Statin did too. The Cambodia Fields are still red-stained by ruthless murders. Why? All to accomplish an ideal of man. Today millions are human babies are being murdered. And no -one seems to even blink an eye.

Their faith is for themselves. This idea has been popularized by having confidence in oneself or even the distorted version of self-esteem. They believe just so they believe something, it can be done. This self-faith provides the needed positive orientation to be accomplished in life. They are happy to focus on what can be done rather than what cannot be done. They defy fear by substituting a blind confidence in themselves. We may ask “what’s wrong with this?“

2. What is the world’s Faith like at heart level?

Man and his goals haven’t changed but only accelerated.. Indeed the modern tools we now posses for travel, information, processing and technology are simply amazing. We see this human potential revealed thousands of years ago in Genesis 11:6-7.

And the Lord said, behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And that is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.

Genesis 11:6-7

Man will naturally thing that they can do well. And to some degree that is true. God said, “nothing which they purpose to do will be Impossible for them.” One might wonder why did God has to hold back this progress ? It was not because God felt threatened. We read in Daniel 12:4, that the end of tine will amass great amounts of knowledge. He will allow this knowledge to increase but at His time. When He allows it, then man will reach a point where his pride will keep him from seeing God and being restrained from their evil.God held back an so that the world would be preserved longer for man will literally destroy himself.

The two main problems are inherent in the humanism model from the old.

Their Vision Is Astray

They seek things that are a mere shadow of what God desires. Man is chasing after a picture of a rather than holding and treasuring a genuine one that’s already in their hands. Man’s utopia are but fully secularized versions of biblical faith. They do this by stripping God out of the equation. Biblical faith brings courage and Vision because God is doing something special. Their focus and glory is in God. Man’s worldly faith. Accentuate his own works, accomplishments and goals. It will end where it began – in dust. Satan tempts man with having all the treasure without submission of their hearts and wills to their creator. Satan is himself self-deceived and still believes his version is better.

Their Method Is Corrupt

The other problem is that these men are evil. They not only seek things that did not please God, but their ways of accomplishing these things were evil in themselves. Human, cloning, stealing brain cells from babies, freedom to spread evil information such as pornography, the usury of credit card companies, gambling to the extent that families are starving and people are homeless are commonly accepted today. If given the chance, the secular touch always turns into terror. Every great communist utopia in the 20th century, ended in mass graves Hitler’s millennium dreams used extermination camps to implement their plans.

The world’s faith is in corrupt man. So full man has sinful plans which will end in correctness.

Biblical faith sprinkles and even pours forth extra grace, love and joy into God’s people while they live in the midst of the world.

If we all think the world is in a bad place right now. It is not to be compared to what will happen in the future. We will destroy ourselves Day by day. And God does show up. It will be to late. There will be true hell to pay.

Confess Your Faults

I think there is a place for eventually sharing with someone else what which have occurred in our lives. There is something tremendously healing about verbalizing it to another person (or just speaking out loud to yourself and God) that does wonders for us.

When I finally decided I had to let the bad feelings and flaults that were poisoning me from the inside out. I began to heal. At first I could only tell these to God and I cried so much. But, later I was able to trust someone enough to listen and not repeat what I told them.

So, if you’re ready to confess your deepest secrets and faults, be Spirit-led and choose someone you know you can trust. Be sure by sharing your burdens with someone else, you do not place it upon that individual’s shoulders, trying to dig up old injuries long buried and forgotten in them.

It is so important to use wisdom and balance in these matters. If you are going to share your problems with someone, let God show you who to choose as a confidont. Pick a mature believer, someone who is not going to be burdened down or harmed by what you share or use it to hurt you or make you feel worse about yourself.

Many times there is a release that comes to us as we finally tell someone else those secrets that have been slowly poisoning us from being crammed in the background of our lives for year’s, especially when we discover that the person with who we share them still loves and accepts us in spite of them.

Bringing Things Out In The Open Causes Them To Lose Their Grip On Use, And We Begin To Heal

The Anguish Of Self-Doubt

Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, dis-esteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome. It is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, “it’s no use -I can’t do it.”

The biggest injury a human being can inflict on themselves is the loss of self-confidence. In today’s world, self-confidence is an important factor in pursuing the passion, earning that dream job and attracting great opportunities we least expect would come our way. Powerful – that is what it is.

No one was created worthless. We all have something to offer in our existence on earth. Over they years, you may have held onto the numerous failures, fear, demeaning encounters which has been the catalyst for your current state of what I call self- torture.

The absence of confidence in one’s self can indeed be frustrating and hinders self-development when we thoroughly think about it – especially when we see the stellar strides the people around us have made within the same period. While we try to stay true to ourselves, we may realize that we form part of our in-progressiveness not because we do not make an effort but just that we do not believe in ourselves in the first place.

We fondly admire individuals we see on our screens, hear on radio, classmates, and others passionately, doing what their good at. While we stare admiringly at them and wish in our hearts that we could do the same. We can because our creator has blessed each and every one of us with something we can present to the world to make it a better place.

In today’s world we have to have the skills because as it may sound hurtful but true people are reluctant to listen or back projects by individuals who are nervous, very apologetic people. We must maximize every avenue at our disposal to build ourselves up and find our talent.

We must keep moving forward and leave self-doubt behind us. We must leave our audience no matter how large or small with a wow impression if we are to get anywhere in life.

Lies We Tell Ourselves When We’re Depressed – How To Challenge Them

When you’re depressed you don’t always see tho gs accurately. Depression can feel like being smothered in a blanket, cut off from the rest of the world disoriented, and alone. When you’re depressed it’s easy to start believing things that you’d never believe when your well. It’s as if depression is sitting in your mind, telling you things that just aren’t true.

Here are some lies depression can tell you:

1. You’re All Alone. Depression thrives when you believe you’re by yourself. Sometimes this lie is phrased as “nobody cares” or “nobody understands” or “I have to cope with this by myself.” it tried to convince you that you’re completely isolated. What’s the truth? Unless you’re a hermit living in a cave in the middle of a desert, you’re not alone. You’re part of something larger. That might be your family, not an online community, or the people who live in your town, or even you’re friends. This might not mean everyone cares about your mental health but it means that you’re part of something bigger and that you’re connected to something.

2. Things Will Never Change. Depression doesn’t like to be challenged, and it stops you from doing so by telling you there’s no point and that your life is going to be miserable forever. What’s the truth? Everything changes. Life is about change. Sometimes it’s slow, like a river eroding a mountain; sometimes it’s as fast as the sun coming out from behind a cloud. You weren’t born depressed, so you know that your mood has changed in the past. And the fact that you have really bad days means that some days are marginally less bad. Everything changes and that includes our moods.

3. It’s All Your Fault. This is a classic depression lie. Not only are we feeling miserable, we should also feel guilty. What’s the truth? People become depressed for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes it’s in response to loss, or because the world seems overwhelming. Sometimes it’s because the chemical in our brains are out of balance. Maybe we did something which led to our current low mood. Maybe we made a bad choice and we’re now stuck in a cycle of misery and guilt. But ‘cause’ isn’t the same as ‘fault’ even if we caused our situation – and most things in life have more than one simple cause – that doesn’t mean our depression is our fault. Depression would love to blame us, because then we won’t challenge it. Don’t fall this lie.

4. You’re Not Really Depressed. You’re just lazy. This is a lie that enables depression to take over our lives. Why would you seek any help if your not really depressed? Depression wants us to believe that our problem is just a character flaw, and not an illness. What’s the truth? Having no motivation is not the same as being lazy. Having no hope for the future is not the same as being lazy. Even if we’re normally someone who lives the easy life, that doesn’t make it okay for us to feel unhappy every day.

5. You Need To Be Depressed Sometimes. This lie is phrased as “you’ve been depressed for so long that’s you have no other identity.”That’s a gross misrepresentation of the idea that depression is a coping mechanism. What’s the truth? Sometimes it’s helpful to understand depression as a way of coping with overwhelming circumstances. But thats not the same as “needing depression” if we have an infection our body might give us a fever, the high temperature helps to kill of the infection. But we wouldn’t deliberately give ourselves a fever Just in case we caught an infection. And we wouldn’t have been depressed for so long that it’s now our only available identity. it’s ust another version of the things never change lie. We won’t always feel this way and we certainly don’t need to feel this way.

It can be difficult to challenge negative thoughts when we’re suffering from depression. When we are depressed it’s hard to believe that anything could possibly beep. If feels like everything is hopeless, and that therapy will probably be a waste of time. One of the most insidious and destructive aspects of depression is that it tricks people into beliefs test there is no hope and no help.

I suffered with depression most of my life. One thing I have learned is that talking about it helps and that challenging it helps.

If you suffer with depression here’s what I’ve learned over the years, set your alarm clock every morning, even when you have nothing to do get up that same time each day. Shower, get dressed and have a healthy breakfast, get out of the house/apartment and do something. And spend at least 30 minutes in the sun each day.

When a therapist suggested this to me, my first thought was that “He’s crazy,” but to my surprise it actually helped.

Believing Is Seeing

You might have seen the title of this post and thought ; isn’t it the other way around. But if you really think about it, we believe without seeing every single day. Even though we may see a news report, we did not actually witness the event. We listen to the gossip others and believe their words to be fact.

However, when it come to believing that God is God, and that the Bible Is Holy and true, many people struggle.

Why is it that we have a much harder time believing in God, than we do a story on the news? The answer is doubt. Doubt is an incredibly powerful weapon that the devil uses to attack the minds of those whose faith is weakened due to struggles in life, feeling distanced from God, or who have never truly known the Savior.

But faith has never been something we can see. There is no visual evidence. The official definition of Faith is a “firm belief in something of which there is no proof.” Faith requires that we believe despite not having visual evidence. If seeing were believing, than Faith would be irrelevant and unnecessary.

Hebrews 11:1 tells us that “ Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”

We can’t see God, but we can His presence in our lives if we believe. We can’t see God, but we can see His power working within us. When we choose to believe, then we see.

If you have been doubting God’s existence because you can not see His activity in your life, pray for His divine intervention. Pray for Him to saturate your life so powerfully that you cannot doubt that He is at work.

It seems that more people today have their faith in the root of humanism. This faith is based on an interest in human affairs at the human scale. The faith of man, they have faith in material possessions. Don’t let your faith be in something you may lose. The earth will fall away and materiel things will rot away.

It’s Was Never About Us

Here’s the bottom line: The Christian life, the church, our faith are not about us, they’re about Him – His plan, His Kingdom, His glory.

It is really the struggle of all struggles. It is counterintuitive for us all. It’s the things that make our lives messy and our relationships conflictual. It’s what sidetracks our thoughts and kidnaps our desires. It is the thing below all the other things that you could point to the argues our need for Greece. It is the one battle that you never escape. It is one place working out of 10 times we need rescued. It is a fight that God wages on our behalf to help us to remember life is simply not about us. It’s about God.

This is precisely why the first four letters of the Bible may be the most important words: “In the beginning, God…” These are for thunderously important words. They really do change everything, and the way you think about your identity, meaning, and purpose to the way that you approach even the most incidental of human duties. Everything that was created Was made by God for God. All the glories of the created world were designed to point to His glory. The universe is His designed to function according to His purpose and plan. That includes you and me. We were not meant to exist according to our own little self oriented plan, living for our own moments of glory. No we were created to live for Him..

So, where in the Godward living are we meant to find expression? It is meant to be expressed not just on our religious dimension of our lives, but in every aspects of our existence. In 1 Corinthians 10:31, when Paul thinks of the life we are called to live for the Glory of God, he doesn’t first think of the big, life-changing, subconsciously spiritual moments of life. No, he thinks of something at mundane and repetitive is eating and drinking. Even the most regular, seemingly important tasks of our lives must be shaped and directed by a heartfelt desire for the glory of God. No I don’t No about you, but in the busyness of life I lose sight of God’s existence, let alone His glory.

Maybe we should start right now admitting that there is nothing less natural for us and to live for the glory of another. This admission is the doorway not to despair, but to hope. God knew that in our sin we would never live this way, so He sent His Son to live a life we couldn’t, To die on our behalf, and to rise again, conquering sin and death. He did this so that we would not only be forgiven for our allegiance to our own glory, but have every grace we need to live for His. When we admit our need for help, we connect ourselves to the rescue that He has already provided in His Son, Jesus.

Psalm 115