By Hearing, We Believe

Based on What We Believe,  We Have the Action of Believing

The Christian belief is Christ Himself in His person and His redemptive work;  Christ’s person and Christ’s work together constitute my belief.

I was reading my morning’s nourishment in “The Holy Word for Morning Revival”  entitled Crystallization-Study of the Gospel of God, Vol. I.  Among other things, it reminded me that the top blessing to me, once a sinner, is God Himself as the life-giving Spirit, Who is nothing less than the consummated Spirit … Who is the consummation of the processed Triune God.  This is, indeed, a real blessing.

I reflected on this and some other verses in Galations 3.   It had always been unclear to me how I was saved out of the ‘hearing of faith’.  Did I actually have faith prior to hearing something about the Lord?  Was “faith” something that had laid dormant in my human spirit, awaiting to be enlivened?  I think it must have.  For I can tell you that in my practical, daily living since becoming a lover of Jesus, this is how things have happened for me.

As a natural health advocate and holistic health care practitioner, specializing in therapeutic, integrative massage and energy bodywork treatments,  I daily employ the benefits from the all-natural of many things as provided by God – to us – in His creation (essential plant oils, dried herbals, teas, balms).  Whenever I talk to a client about what God’s creation has done for not only my physical body, but the physical being of many of my other clients, my belief – because it’s centered on my experiences and is therefore very resolute and solid – infuses whomever I’m speaking with.   The infusion or “transmission” is one of belief due to substantiated facts … and when I speak about these things, the person “hearing” me receives a definite impression.  The result is a  “belief” that what I’m telling them is true (because it is).

They’re impressed to believe what I’m saying – not because I’m adept at speaking or I’m some kind of aggressive snake oil salesperson – but because my foundation is based on a belief and trust fathered by a factual happening.  As they listen and hear about these experiences with herbals and natural healing aids, something happens echoes within them, giving them a new option – a new hope.  It’s “good news” to them.

This is exactly what happens when we have daily, fresh experiences of the Lord and it bubbles over into our speaking and more importantly – our living.  The FACT of what has transpired in my being as a direct result of gaining more of the life-giving Spirit within me,  speaks forth Christ.  The belief I have in Him, because He’s a part of my practical, daily reality causes something to “rise up” in the hearer:  a “believing”.

It’s the same when someone first hears of the person and work of Christ, or re-hears it as a result of personal experience in Christ;  that hearing causes a reaction in the depths of the hearer’s being (within their human spirit) that translates into believing.

In Galations 3:2 the word faith is first the things we believe in; THEN, based on what we believe in, we have the ACTION of believing.

If I had not known of people whose body had healed naturally, I may want it to be true but wouldn’t KNOW it to be true.  But because I have personal experience with the positive outcomes of using God’s creation for health, this has lead me into something I can place my trust (belief).   What follows is the action of believing.

So it is when we speak of the gospel, the truth of the person and redemptive work of Christ.  People listening hear our conviction – our faith – what we sincerely believe – and they have a response,  not to us … but to our faith / belief.

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