Life #14 - Faith to Live

• “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God…” (Galatians 2:20 KJV).

“I live by the faith of the Son of God”. Hmm. Other bibles state that we live by “our faith” in the Son of God. Please! Jesus had something to say about our faith and it wasn’t pretty. He called it ‘little’ because little faith succeeds only in calm seas! The disciples quickly learned this distinction when the winds started to blow and the waves covered their boat (Matthew 8:24-26).

So how can we expect our little faith to prevail when the winds of death and the waves of disease begin to shake and overwhelm our earthly tents? If our faith were enough to get us to live and never die, wouldn’t we all be immortal right now? Instead, the opposite is true. Our faith is insufficient and carries with it a pattern of failure.

We are justified by the Lord’s righteousness, washed by his blood, cleansed by his word, quickened by his Spirit, etc. After all he accomplished, does it make any sense to live by our faith—a faith that has failed to walk on water, cast out demons, raise the dead, and accomplish greater works?

To “live and never die” is to make “life unto life” (2 Corinthians 2:16) “by the faith of the Son of God”. Period.

  

Scripture quotations from New King James Version (NKJV) unless otherwise noted; excerpts from our book to be released next year.