Do you control your sense of faith?
Faith is often understood as something we control and brew on our own accord. Jesus complicates this view by saying, "The work of God is this, to believe in the one he has sent." He similarly says on a number of occasions that our faith is God's work--it's a gift to us.
I can call myself a Christian, but I am only a Christian because God gifted to me belief in Jesus Christ.
On the one hand I'm filled with the same perplexing questions as many other people. On the other hand, that I would dare suggest that I could correctly control my faith, to the exclusion of needing God in this area of my life, is so prototypical of the error of sin that's described throughout Scripture! You and I need God in the most complete and profound way.
If you can question, "Do I need God here?" the answer is always simple: yes.
We need God to the extreme that Jesus asks us to eat him.
What does he mean by this? What is a church doing when they take "Communion?" These questions drive the message below.
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