Faith

[By Faith] "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." (Hebrews 11:1, ESV) 


[Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith]
    Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. 
(Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV)

Hebrews 11 through the first part of chapter 12 it's really hitting on faith.  I love the caption for the passage as well, "By Faith" and "Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith."  Amen!  Don't you love how faith is defined in Hebrews 11:1? It looks like a  simple sentence but it's well worth taking the time to muse over. 


What is faith?  It is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.  So it looks like faith is related to assurance and conviction.  Faith is not always easy to have, as humans I think we would rather see it "with our own eyes." But it's what God calls us to do, have faith in Jesus, in His life, death, and RESURRECTION!  


Oh, what about how we use the word "faithful." You would think this would mean full of faith but no, we use it as meaning: consistent, constant, reliable.  Does this usage have any ties with it's root word faith?  Something to think on. 



I also noticed that what I need is built right in my name: Cally Faith Reed.  And I looked at the header as I wrote the last paragraph, and there it was again: Faith's Findings my blog's "title, name" or "theme."  I named it that way mainly because of the fact that Faith is my middle name, and I'd be posting my finding thoughts, ideas, memories and whatnot on the blog.  (Also, I did quite a bit of jewelry making back in the day, and a finding was the metallic part of the jewelry, the part that held it together, the clasp. I thought it was cool that it had some crafty meaning as well.)  But now I find yet another meaning the phrase holds: that in your faith walk, (your relationship with Jesus) you discover many new things along the way, and I hope never to stop learning new virtues and aspects along the way.  May the Gospel and anything to do with God and His Word, never grow to be "old-hat," boring or bland to my soul.   Ask God to revive a thirst for His all-quenching, satisfying truth.  


Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 
(John 17:17 ESV)