Checking my Faith Temperature

Posted on September 28, 2010 by valerie

Habukkuk 2:4

“…but the just shall live by his faith.”

Am I living by my faith or by my own strength? This is the question today.

Let’s check the temperature of our faith thermometers and see if the faith is at the boiling or the cooling degree mark.

When we live by our faith, we know that the same God who clothes the grass of the field is clothing us as well. If we doubt God’s powerful love, He says to us: “O ye of little faith!” That faith is inactive and nothing miraculous is taking place in this person’s life.

Faith without works is dead. James wrote: “Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.” (James 2:18)

But when one acts on the spoken or written Word of Jesus when He says: “I will come and heal you,” as He said to the centurion regarding his sick son, this is boiling hot faith. The Roman centurion believed Christ right on the spot. Christ never went to the man’s house, because his faith was active and flaming hot!

Scripture records him as saying: “…. speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.” (Matthew 8:8-10)

Lord, as I judge my faith and begin to live totally by Your faith as the Bible teaches, I pray that I too will hear You commend my faith by saying: “…I have not found so great faith!”

Lil Green