Faith

Amid all the uncertainty in my life in army now, I thought it will be appropriate to evaluate what the faith in which I had cling on to.
What does it really means to have faith?
For what is faith?
Hebrews 11:1 writes:

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

So how can we get this faith?
Romans 10:17 writes:

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

In essence, someone needs to share their faith with us.

It's easy to say, "I believe in God". Faith comes in only when tasked to do something extra for that statement being made.

Someone once said something which I will paraphrase: "If you still do not act on your faith when life is at its worst, then you are graceless."
Salvation, though is free for all, needs to be act upon, that faith needs to be active, seeking and reaching out to redeem it.
I enjoyed the ending of the song 'Only faith',: "Only by Faith, only by faith, only by faith, the Grace applies."

Thus, its quite certain ONLY BY FAITH then can we get God's grace.

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That sort of sums up faith that amounts to salvation.
Now onto faith in the daily walk and life.
Some say our faith can increase or decrease, by how close we yearn ourselves to God in our quiet time, worship and prayers. It can also be affected by life's event, where God may seems silent, or He had answered prayers.
Can we measure faith? Or rather our Christian faith? The bible says that if we are to have faith as a mustard seed, we are able to move 'mountains'!

I believe that prayer is one means we can act upon our faith. In fact, prayer can be said to be the most strenuous exercise based on that act of faith.
To have faith in the Holy Spirit interceding for us,
To have faith in God answering them according to His riches and glory,
To have faith in Jesus, to love us enough to die and rise again on Calvary.

I think faith does changes, for God is faithful even when we lack faith.
Using the analogy of driving an automobile down a road, when our road of life gets bumpy, its easy to lose that faith in the captain driving the car. We thought we can never make it, often causing stalls and resulting in delay in the journey.

Our walk with God is one that is directly linked to our faith, and this faith I believe cannot be stagnant, it cannot remain status quo. Just like how our muscles will deteriorate if left unused, our faith needs to be exercised and worked out, always pumping even assisting others through your act of faith.

As the year draws to an end, I am indeed thankful for how God has increase and renewed my faith in Him. Though at time when the events in life seems bad, which had me almost doubting and losing faith, I do know He is still faithful.
Philippians 1:6

being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ