3/11/2025

Do you think the Christian faith is important?  Seventy Christians were recently found bound and beheaded inside a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Why would people choose to stand for Christ in the face of such horrific persecution?  Because they know Jesus to be Lord and have made him their Lord.  They know the truth of faith, and they stepped into a personal relationship that changed everything.

In this book God in the Dock, C. S. Lewis says: “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance.  The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”  The truthfulness of the Christian faith illumined all other truth for him:  “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

Jim Denison that where we place our faith and trust is like the currency of our hearts.  We have a limited amount of faith and trust to invest and real returns to gain or lose depending on where we choose to invest them.  

Scripture is clear that we cannot place our faith and trust in both God and the world.  We cannot choose both money and God as our anchors of hope.  We cannot equally choose both the opinion of other people and God’s opinion.  We must, moment by moment, choose where we will invest our limited, valuable currency of faith and trust.

We will never experience the peace of heaven if our hope is in this earth.  We will never experience the power and help of the Holy Spirit if our hope is only in our own abilities, talents, and strengths.  We will never fully experience the satisfaction of being truly loved if we place our hope of affirmation in the opinions of others.

The only path to truly experiencing the abundant life available to us in Jesus is placing our faith and trust in him alone.

-Michael