Living as Truly Believing

This thought came to me.

I want to live as though I truly believe.

That may seem strange to say that, yes...but so many around seem to live as if they don't really believe in God and all He has said in His Word. And it could be easy (perhaps?) for women to get caught up in that mindset.

It is truly about living by faith... 

"(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)"

(2 Corinthians 5:7)

 

...and about truly believing in God and His Christ which leads to obeying all He has commanded. Faith in God to dress biblical, to be quiet submissive women, to be keepers at home, to know that God is faithful who has promised us eternal life for those who have obeyed the gospel.  

Even though the true saints on this earth are in a battle, most of us have it easy. Will our faith stand strong through the greatest trials? I'm reminded of the great people of faith. May those of us godly women be striving for a quiet life of a strong and unwavering faith in this great God that we have not seen, yet we have believed. What a worthy God we have that His people should suffer these things!

"Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.
 

Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
 

Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
 

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
 

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
 

(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
 

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
 

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect."
(Hebrews 11:33-40)

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (Hebrews 11:1)

I sometimes think about what Christ said in this passage and how those who fall away from the faith didn't rightly count the cost to follow Christ. It reminds me to endure faithful

day

by 

day

until the end.

"And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." (Luke 14:25-35)

Be encouraged women of God!

The end will come! 

"For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry." 

(Hebrews 10:37)

"...be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." 

(Revelation 2:10b) 

 

Endure faithful having counted the great cost to follow Christ. 

 

This precious promise from the Son of God...is true and faithful.

"That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
 

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
 

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." 

(John 3:15-18)

 

Do you truly believe on Christ today which leads to obedience in all things...or is it just a "head belief", a dead faith?  

See the biblical gospel to eternal life through Christ here.