Faith, part 15

Make no mistake that just as others will hate you for knowing Christ they will also hate you for having faith. 1 Timothy 4:10 states:

“For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.”

Others will question our faith. There are those in this world who serve evil, and despise those who oppose them. They will see your faith, and criticize you for it. These people may be devout atheist, or they may be members of your own place of worship. Those without faith feel disgusted when they see someone who has achieved the faith that they cannot. They reproach you because they want to make themselves feel better by bringing you down.

Do not lose faith because of the criticism of others. If you have achieved complete faith than you have achieved the greatest thing any Christian can ever hope for. You can do anything through that faith, and others will attack you to keep you from doing so. They will try to drag you down, and they will try to make you doubt. Attacks from all others must be ignored, and you must always rely on your faith that you are blessed to have achieved. Even if you have yet to achieve that faith, others with less faith will attack you. Continue to move toward complete faith despite Satan’s attacks. Do as the Lord desires, and achieve the greatest faith that a person is capable of. Those who attack you will be judged for their own failings. Don’t allow yourself to be grouped among them because you could not keep the faith when they renounced you.

We trust in the living God, the Savior of all men. Others will hate this, and hate us for it. Do not become faithless because if it, but grow in strength because you are doing something right when others try to bring you down for your faith. The Lord is showing His faith in you to resist attacks when He allows you to be attacked. Grow closer to Him through the attacks, and not farther away. When you resist these attacks you show that the foundation of your faith is based on the redemptive power of Christ. Such a foundation will never be destroyed, and your faith will endure forever.