Saving Faith Living Trust
Saving Faith Living Trust
We are saved by the grace of God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. At that moment, Holy Spirit begins to live in us.
Holy Spirit living in us can only happen if we are righteous.
Being righteous is not something we can do, so Jesus gave us His righteousness.
SO... We have believed God and we have salvation (righteousness and eternal life), yet We are ambassadors here, visitors who will one day go home to the Kingdom of which we are true citizens.
While living here we cannot see, touch, hear, or smell our true home. Our senses work here, and they are necessary. We use them to do mundane things like feed ourselves, drive a car, make a living, and love our family.
Yet we remain citizens of the Kingdom and that has some wonderful benefits. The Monarch of that Kingdom has seen to it that we are given plentiful love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, self-control, for example. We can't take advantage of these things by our senses. We take advantage of them by faith.
Trust grows with time as we come to know our Father, the Great King, more intimately, more relationally. As we increasingly notice Him working in our lives we increasingly trust that He will work in our lives. As we increasingly notice that even in the difficult times, He has shown us new things that improved our lives, we increasingly trust that He will work for good in our lives despite the troubles of living in this fallen world.
This growth in grace and the knowledge of the Lord is maturity. In a way strikingly similar to the human maturing process, spiritual maturity comes at its own pace and in somewhat different ways in each of us. We can choose to yield to Holy Spirit as He leads and teaches us. We can also choose to quench His promptings in favor of the false-flag signals of the flesh. By choosing to trust the Spirit within us, we more fully express Christ, the one true King, and the values and benefits of His Kingdom.
Trusting God goes beyond the childlike faith of believing Him. It gives legs to that faith resulting in the love of God being expressed to those around us.
