Faith comes by hearing, so when do we stop hearing? The answer could be found in Timothy's epistle where Paul draws in his concluding few paragraphs, "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses."
So this essentially is a journey, of hearing and transforming by the renewing of our minds, for the heart to believe, so that the mouth can confess. And this is the work of the Holy Spirit's conviction. Another way to put this is, with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame....whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Remember when, if you are a believer, you first called on Him when you trusted in Him! A new baby in God's family but we need to grow up from this infant state to a young person and finally an adult.
Today's message at church by our Senior Pastor, was about Saul's conversion. Although his was a blinding experience in encountering Jesus Christ, it underlines some of the basic principles of discipleship and maturing faith. We need to see Jesus, serve Jesus and speak Jesus!
This "see" is not what Thomas one of his disciples said in doubt of Jesus' resurrection. Jesus' answer revealed this physical "seeing" when He replied Thomas eight days later, "So, you believe because you've seen with your own eyes. Even better blessings are in store for those who believe without seeing."
Growing faith is then, in our Lord Jesus Christ, whom we don't physically "see", but we see, supernaturally! Thrown in free is His blessings. Amen
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