FAITH IS A GOVERNING PRINCIPLE OF LIFE

Faith is not an isolated act of life. It is not something you did. True saving faith is an inward disposition of the heart created by the grace of God. It is continual confidence and trust in God through the Lord Jesus Christ. True faith in Christ is a governing principle of life in the hearts of all true believers. "The just shall live by faith." Saving faith is manifest in a very practical way in the lives of God's children. Faith dictates how you acquire your possessions, how you look upon your possessions and how you use your possessions (Luke 12:15-21). Faith looks squarely and honestly at material possessions and knows them to be vanity, and rejoices to know that Christ is all. Christ is all that is needed, wanted, and sought by true faith. Faith lives not for the perishing things of time and sense, but for Christ and his eternal glory (II Cor. 4:18). Faith seeks to use the blessings of God in this world, not to pamper and indulge the flesh, but for the glory of God in Christ. If faith is afflicted with poverty, it is content. If faith is blessed with wealth, it is generous. True faith makes a man honest, content, peaceful, and generous.