Nov
18
Written by:
Bob Flynn
11/18/2009 7:00 AM
Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed. And as a matter of fact, if you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have been reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people drift away? (C. S. Lewis, Virtue and Vice)
Faith, How to Keep
One must train the habit of faith.
The first step is to recognize the fact that your moods change. The next is to make sue that, if you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious readings and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed. And as a matter of fact, if you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have been reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people drift away? (C. S. Lewis, Virtue and Vice)
There is good reason for the Lord Himself to have warned us about the eyes being the lamp that lights our body and that we ought to make sure the light we see isn't really darkness. Isaiah told us of a highway called holiness upon which the redeemed would trod. Jeremiah told us of the ancient way and warned us not to get lost on the byways of life. Jesus said that He was the Way. Roy Hession, in Calvary Road, reminded us that there is no way to "The Way" because Jesus Himself is "The Way." So the road which we walk upon and follow is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. If we loose sight of this "Way" we will begin to drift of the true course illuminated by the true light. This is an impossible task considering our fallen nature. But with God, all things are possible. Our Faith must be fed! So be careful what you eat!
Make sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness. If you are filled with light, with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight were filling you with light." (Luke 11:35-36 NLT)
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