God can sustain us through our faith in Him.

What is faith? You experience it every day in small ways. You have faith that you will reach out and open the front door of our school. You would be very surprised to find it locked at a time when you would usually come in for class. You have faith the chair in your classroom will hold you up. This is because you’ve always been held up by it before. We put faith in very small things all the time without even thinking about it.

So what does it mean to have faith in God? One definition of faith is confidence or trust in a person or thing. Confidence the door is unlocked or trust the chair will hold you up. So trust in God is that, but bigger. We trust He will do everything He says He will do! We trust even when we cannot see. We have confidence that God is working in our lives.

2 Corinthians 5:6-7 says “Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. For we live by faith, not by sight.”

At home in the body means we are here on Earth instead of in heaven with God. As long as we are here, we have to live by faith…confident that God is with us, around us, in us through His Spirit, guiding our lives. One day our faith will be sight. We will meet God in heaven and see Him face to face!

One song puts it this way: “I put my faith in Jesus. My anchor to the ground. My hope and firm foundation. He’ll never let me down.”

We put faith in many things that will not last. Our faith is never wasted with Jesus. He paid for our sin with His life. He has done what no one else in history was willing to do. He is worthy of our faith. Faith in Him will sustain you through your whole life.

Where have you put your faith in things besides Jesus?

How have those things let you down?

What does your faith look like right now?

Jesus, you have never let us down. You are the only one worthy of our faith. Help us see ways we have put our confidence in other things. Help us remember that faith in you will sustain us through everything we go through in our lives.

Thank you for being faithful to go to the cross and pay the price for our sins.

Let our knowledge of your love for us fuel our faith until we see you face to face! Amen.