Is "just believing" enough? ...

Do You Have Faith?

"Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that be is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him" (Heb. 11:6). It is a requirement, not just a suggestion, that we have faith! If we are to please God, we must believe that He is - that He exists and is the Creator of all things and the One who rewards those who diligently seek Him.

When we speak about faith we often think of Thomas, referred to as Doubting Thomas because of his statement: "Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe (Jn. 20:25). After Thomas personally saw Jesus miraculously appear in a room where he and other apostles were assembled. behind closed doors, and was able to feel with his own hands the holes that were pierced in Jesus hands and side, only then did he believe. Jesus replied "Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed (Jn. 20:29).

None of us has literally seen Christ, yet the evidence of his existence is everywhere. Even the mere fact that we exist should be proof of a Creator God. We are told in Eph. 3:9 that Jesus is the Creator of all things - of the multiple thousands of various life- forms around us.

To believe that life just evolved is contrary to the Word of God. The Apostle Paul referred to this in his letter to the Romans. "Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God" (Rom. 8:21). A better translation of the word corruption is decay. When we come to understand that the entire creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God to remove it from a state of decay, we realize that the theory of evolution has no merit. For evolution suggests that the creation is growing rather than decaying.

Faith is the basic ingredient that Christians must have and it is a powerful force in the hands of a believer. Heb. 11, the "faith chapter" has many references to people who possessed much faith: