Wedding day

Wedding day
Isn't she beautiful!

Monday, July 19, 2010

Faith vs Works


You can have smoke and heat without a fire, but you can not have a fire without smoke or heat. It's the same with faith and works. I can go out and do good works and give to the poor and it not be the result of my faith in Jesus for my salvation but rather faith in my own efforts to get God's approval. But to know and trust in Jesus for deliverance from my broken nature and salvation from God's judgement of it without any outward evidence of this divine work is impossible. That's like saying I can stop your heart from beating and do it in such a way that know one looking at you from the outside could tell, like you would just go right on walking and talking and breathing like nothing has happened. Works do not save, but real faith in Jesus so changes us on the inside that you can tell from the outside. And this is not because the faith is great, it only need be as big as a muster seed. But it is because the object of the faith is so powerful. And it's not faith in what Jesus spoke or in his moral advise, but rather faith in who he is and what only he can do for us. JESUS IS THE SAVIOR!