Faith Grows

Colossians 2:6
And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness. (NLT)

There is no one way. Yes, the one way to Heaven is through God's saving grace. But the way we travel between now and then is as varied as the number of persons on this earth. We each accept Jesus as our Lord and through prayer and study we sink our roots deep in Him.

Our roots are not the same as anyone else and they are not tangled up with any other roots. Our path is unlike any other. But this is not all we are to do. Sure we should be praying, reading our Bibles, and meditating on what we read.

I go a gym during the week and exercise my muscles. As I am faithful to do that, my muscle grow in proportion to the time I spend in exercise. Limited exercise equals limited growth.

It is what we do with our lives that builds our faith. We all begin with little faith; faith the size of a mustard seed. As we listen and let Holy Spirit guide us each day our lives become built on the foundation of Jesus Christ. Just like a muscle, as we exercise our faith, as we do what He tells us to do, our faith grows a little bit at a time.

Faith grows, but not because we study His word. No, it grows as we let our roots go down deep and then build our lives on Him.