Sublime

Friend, take heart. The days you struggle with your faith, the moments you agonize over your fickle heart, the weeks you continue to doubt—remember that it is not the quality of your faith that saves and keeps you, but the finished work of Jesus Christ. Must you have faith? Yes. You must place your trust in Him.

Faithfulness To pursue faithfulness means acting in integrity, keeping your word, and doing what is right before God, with fortitude and without complaint, because you trust God to give you the ability to complete all he has given you to do.

Faith is convicted trust, not vague belief. Faith is a placing of hopes in such a way that hope gets redefined. In the Scriptures, hope does not have the connotation of “I hope such and such will happen,” as if there is some chance it may not. No, in the Scriptures, hope is an assured trust. Our hope is Christ, and this hope will prove true; it wil

Faith is a deeply held conviction that there is a higher meaning in life that cannot be proved by outer events.

assurance that what we hope for is going to happen (see Hebrews 11:1). The more time we spend with God, the more we learn of his goodness and faithfulness—and the stronger our faith in him becomes. We learn from God’s Word that it is impossible to please God without faith (see Hebrews 11:6). That very chapter of Scripture—Hebrews 11—lists many ordi