Faith Every Day I ...

Monday, September 19, 2011. Faith is something for Sundays? One could sometimes think that this would be true. Christian communities meet on Sunday mornings, and often you cannot really recognize any difference between Christians and Non-Christians during the week in many Christian societies.

Faith on Monday …

How is faith realizing itself on a Monday morning? How is faith influencing our normal weekday? What is going on in our mind, in our heart, in our emotions? How is faith giving input into our decisions and our actions?

When we look into the New Testament idea about faith, then it is something which transforms our whole life. We are changed completely by God through faith in Jesus. The biblical position is quite clear: Mondays and Tuesdays and every day of the week is strongly influenced by faith.

But how is it working? How is faith influencing our normal day? What is going on? What are the processes, the mechanisms? How is faith realizing itself during a Monday or Tuesday? Last weekend my daughter made a statement which seems to hit the key point here. She said: the pastor always says what you should do in general terms, but he never says how you should do it!

Digging one layer deeper! …

We want to talk about many things how faith can and will influence our days, the normal weekdays. But before we go there, let us dig one layer deeper.

Faith wants to transform our mind. It is God who wants us to come to reality, to true reality which includes his presence, his power, his purpose for our life. Creation is made by him, and he wants mankind to live with him. So his presence will influence the complete setup of or life, when we believe in him and live with him.

Let us close with a key example: our relationship to others around us. When we think about another human, in faith we will realize how valuable he or she is. Thoughts which put others down cannot survive in the presence of the Lord. God's love will succeed to change our heart, our mind, our thoughts … and we will start to think about how we can support the people around us and how we can generate sustainable help. That is very practical, and takes place all the time, every day, again and again … (Roland Potthast) ... more texts