Kingdom Currency

What up fellas, hope yall good. Imma keep goin with some faith. Yep, Kingdom currency, that would be faith, it is necessary for living in the Kingdom. If you lose it, it's like spiritual bankruptcy, which leaves us unsuited for Kingdom life. Satan will attack us for this very reason, I mean, he did it to Job, so why not you and me? Adversities in life, whatever they may be will bang on your faith, try to tear it down, and even try to kill it. I've been there, we all have I am pretty sure. Satan is after our faith because he knows that it is what we live by in our lives. Some people who are not believers can read the Bible, study it, and even quote it as well or better than you and I, yet it has no positive effect on their lives because "faith activates the law." Faith is the currency that activates all the promises and principles of the Kingdom. It is the style we live by, the style we wear like clothes. It is the way we manifest the Kingdom culture. Plainly, faith keeps us alive.

Faith can be a tricky and touchy subject. It is like people make it an isolated doctrine, making it seem like there is an exclusive club that leaves the people who don't have the "right kind of faith" feeling spiritually inadequate. Which, in actuality, faith was intended for the opposite. It was supposed to breed hope, not produce a sense of deficiency. Maybe the problem with this is that faith was not intended to be an isolated doctrine but rather meshed together within the bigger picture of God's plan for us. I mean, Jesus didn't teach faith as an isolated thing, but it was always in the context of His principal message: the Kingdom.

True faith means a "sure hope." But wait, kinda seems like a contradictory statement, but not with a biblical perspective. The world tends to think of hope as something you desire but have no certainty whether you will actually receive it. But I say biblical hope is different. Biblical hope is sure and certain because it is anchored on the integrity and promises of God. In Romans 8:24-25 Paul says, "²⁴For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? ²⁵But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently." And in Hebrews 6:19-20a it says, "¹⁹We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, ²⁰where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf."

The tragedy of churches today is that the faith of many professed believers does not rise to this level. But what about me? Am I trusting in my circumstances or in the person of Jesus Christ who cannot lie and is "the same yesterday and today and forever" (Heb. 13:8)? Faith is the sure hope that drives you to action. That is why James 2:26 says that faith without works is dead. So yea fellas, it is the currency. Faith is to Kingdom like oxygen is to humankind.

trying to die to myself,

-tmart