No one living in our world has seen Jesus Christ. No one since those early disciples has any idea what he looks like. There are pictures and paintings of him which have been done in the last few centuries, but they in no way capture his true likeness. There is not a person living who would recognize him if he were to appear to them today. Jesus, a man whom the Bible describes as one who was not particularly handsome, striking, or eye catching, would just blend in today as far as appearance is concerned. It has been over two thousand years since Jesus left the earth, no one has seen him, no one knows what he looked like yet millions of people today believe that he lived a perfect life, that he loved us so much that he died to save us by taking the punishment for our sins, and that he was resurrected and lives so that we might have eternal life.
How is it possible that for ages people just like us have accepted this scenario that I have described as truth? Everyone who has believed that this Jesus of the scriptures is the Son of God who came to earth to save all who will believe have done so by faith. By faith, believing, trusting, accepting as truth although not having physical proof, staking your very life on the unseen because you know in your heart and soul that doing this act will guarantee you a better life. This is the faith that changes people’s lives. It is the faith that gives hope to those who have no hope. Faith is a confidence in that which is unseen resulting in the assurance of that Hope. Faith is that open door which leads us into a new life to become a new creature with a new heart and purpose thus empowering us to accomplish what God had planned for us before we were born.
Faith is more than seeing a chair and sitting down on it because you know it will support you. Faith is not seeing the chair, and sitting down on that which you can’t see trusting that it is there, and knowing that you will not fall to the floor. Faith is being supported by the unseen hand of God who will always be with you to protect you from the one who wants to destroy you. I believe in the resurrection power of God given to his Son Jesus Christ. I believe in the Holy Spirit, and that he lives in my body which is his Holy temple. By faith I believe that I have eternal life because my Savior forgave me and took all of my sins away. By Faith I believe that one day Jesus is coming back to earth in all his power and glory to take all who have believed in him to heaven where we will live forever with him. Man cannot know Jesus or please Holy God without faith.
Hebrews 11
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