From the Pastor
Pastor Mike Burns
Victory Church
903.567.2072 (Ext. 3002) ;){kind=small}
MBurns@wordofvictory.org
The Object of Your Faith
It has become
popular in our society to talk about faith
as though it were some sort of mystical force or magical power. Countless
movies, television shows, and some songs reinforce the idea that you can
achieve any goal and overcome any challenge if
only you have a little faith or if only you just believe. Whether that
faith is placed “in yourself” or in some other fantastical force (like the
power of love or the promise of change), the point is always the same: Believe
hard enough, and dreams can come true. To our postmodern culture, what people
believe in is not all that important. The critical thing is simply that they believe and that their faith…whatever
its object…makes them happy and furthers their lifestyle.
Biblical faith
could not be more opposite. It is defined by a confident trust in and full
dependence on the only right object of faith. The object is God Himself. The
reality is that faith is only as good as the object on which it rests. For the
postmodern secularist, having faith “in yourself” is an extremely limiting and
discouraging prospect. Faith based on that kind of fantasy is nothing more than
fiction. But for the Christian, faith in God is the key to facing any
circumstance of life. God is infinitely powerful, wise, good, faithful, and
loving. To depend on Him is to say with the apostle Paul, “If God is for us,
who is against us? For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor
any other created things, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which
is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:31, 38-39). Who is the object of your
faith?
Published on Monday, January 14, 2013 @ 8:27 AM CDT
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