Finding
Your Faith
To find God, you
need faith. Let faith be your guiding star in your life, and you will find Him.
Finding faith
begins with loving God. Many Christians believe that following the commandments
of God and the precepts of the church is an expression of their love for God.
But loving God goes beyond that. Maybe we have never been taught to love God;
we were brought up to obey Him. To love God seems such an abstract thought;
after all, God is a spirit. However, falling in love with God is no mystery to
those who really seek God through their faith. Even Jesus said: “Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul.” (Mark
12:30) Jesus would not have demanded the impossible from us. It is not
impossible, and can be done with faith. Therefore, it is humanly possible to
fall in love with God. With the love for God, faith will come along. That is
how you can find faith by loving God first.
Jesus showed us the
highest kind of love: self-offering love. “Greater love than this no man hath,
that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13) What is true of
human love is also true of love for God. The Bible has repeatedly shown us
individuals with self-offering love for God, such as apostle Peter.
God wants each and
every one of us to love Him. However, despite our efforts, our love will be
imperfect, because we are imperfect and God is perfect. We are not worthy to
love God, and it is impossible to have true love for God over a long period of
time without some special help from God. That special help comes in the form of
illumination and inspiration–something that God never denies us, if we have
faith. “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will
find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ” (Luke 11:9)
So, we find God
only through our love for Him, and we find that love only through faith, and
through faith we find God.
But is finding
faith easy? Finding faith is the tallest order in human life.
Stephen Lau
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Stephen Lau
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