Stay Firm

If you aren’t solid about what you believe, you’ll be easily pulled. It is very simple to see how much the things others think and value impact what we do. If you care about what you believe, you need to be educated and regularly fed.

The things you consume regularly will mold your thought process. If you say what you believe matters to you, but you aren’t spending time pursuing it, you are demonstrating that it isn’t as foundational to your life as you claim. You won’t accidentally grow in your faith - just like any other habit it happens when you practice it regularly.

When we aren’t spending time actively learning what God says, we become susceptible to what the world is pushing. There are many Christians who have wishy-washy morals on topics that Scripture makes crystal clear, because they are swayed by their feelings. I’ve heard it before, but it isn’t letting God speak when you are reading the Bible to find the message you’ve already decided you want Him to say. The Bible should convict us, and parts of it should make us uncomfortable.

God didn’t include any parts of scripture with the hopes that we as people would just be smart enough to figure out what He meant - He wrote it specifically for us. He knows our hearts are deceitful and He made sure to include parts of the law that Jesus came to abolish versus parts that were still matters of sin.

We are designed by God to be emotional creatures, however, we were not designed to be victims to our emotions. Just because something feels uncomfortable does not mean that we don’t need to grapple with it, or that it isn’t still truth. Truth will not feel comfortable when we aren’t following God.

If you say your faith matters, then your time investing in it also matters. The less time we spend in God’s word, the easier it is for Satan to twist it. In the Garden of Eden, Satan didn’t need to deceive Eve by inventing a new lie, he did it by twisting something God said. After all these years, we are still allowing the same play to work because we aren’t investing ourselves to be solid on what exactly God really says.

A plant that isn’t watered will start to wilt.

Is your faith something you are active about, or are you letting it crumble?