• Sure Of What We Hope For

  Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Oct 15, 2009 (message contributor)

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  Denomination: Baptist

SURE OF WHAT WE HOPE FOR

Saving faith has much assurance. Michael Faraday, the great scientist, was taken ill. When it became evident his sickness would soon result in his death, a group of fellow scientists came to see him--not so much to talk about science as to talk about death. One of them said to him: "Mr. Faraday, what are your speculations about your future?" With evident surprise to them, he replied: "Speculations?! I have none. I am resting on certainties." Then he quoted 2 Tim. 1:12: "For I know whom i have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day."

How do you see your faith? Is it irrational, a leap in the dark? Is it a religious faith, always strivings to be made right by your self-righteous acts? Or is it as described here (Heb. 11:1): sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see...