Faith

Hello friends and family, I am sorry it has been so long since my last blog post, taking on-line college classes is very demanding.  I am studying Computers and Information Technology at Ivy Bridge College of Tiffin University.  I am taking my core classes to which makes it boring, right now English and Math, and then more English and Math, with that said I do now like English at all, but it seems to have its place in the world.

Back on track to my goal on my blog post, today I like to talk more on sin and hopefully give it more clarification to you.  Then I like to talk on faith and the same give clarity and up-building.

Jehovah is very serious about sin, lets look at Romans 6:23 -

KJV from SearchGodsWord - "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

NWT - "For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our Lord."

This shows us how serious God is about sin, if we sin we will die, and we do.  But we also see hope in this verse also.  As mentioned in a previous post sin is to miss the mark set by Gods standards.  If we look at a dicionary definition of bad we get "failing to reach an acceptable standard" from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bad.  If we fail to reach a standard, is that not the same as to miss the mark?  We failed or missed, to reach a standard or the mark!

But in the same verses we learn the gift of life is through Jesus Christ.  Jesus said we need the faith the size of a mustard seed in Matthew 17:20.

KJV from SearchGodsWord - "And Jesus said (5627) unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say (5719) unto you, If ye have (5725) faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say (5692) unto this mountain, Remove (5628) hence to yonder place; and it shall remove (5695); and nothing shall be impossible (5692) unto you."

NWT - "He said to them: “Because of YOUR little faith. For truly I say to YOU, If YOU have faith the size of a mustard grain, YOU will say to this mountain, ‘Transfer from here to there,’ and it will transfer, and nothing will be impossible for YOU."

If we have faith, that is things hoped for though things not seen (Hebrews 11:1), we can have hope in eternal life, can't we?  Going in to the orgin word of faith "peithō" (from SeachGodsWord.com) we learn it is calming, of course to believe and to persuade!  Our faith can persuade ourself and others to have hope and to believe and to calm each other all the time, weather in time of need or not.  Is this not a wonderful thought of faith?

Love and peace till next time, and keep choosing life.