Check the level of your faith (Part 4)
There are five ways in which the level of our faith can be tested:
The attitude: Our attitude is an indicator that clearly shows our level of faith and it is more evident when we go through hard times. He who walks by faith must always expect something. If you visit a friend on a day before his trip, you will find out that everything is ready for the trip.
Or if you visit a pregnant mother for a couple of weeks before the delivery, you will notice that she took time to prepare for the coming of her baby. Women of faith buy diapers and baby clothes before the birthday and not after. Whoever knows God's promises in His Word behaves like someone who expects good things despite the hard times he may be passing through.
Words: If you have a positive attitude, you will confess positive words. In the contrary, if you only murmur and complain against God, it is clear that your words will be negative. If a glass contains water up to the middle, the one who has faith will say that the glass is half full but the person who does not have faith will say that the glass is half empty. Both are right, but they have a different attitude. Do you want to check someone’s level of faith? Spend the day with him and check the nature of the words that come out of his mouth. The checking is easier when someone is passing through some hard times. The purpose of this teaching is not to judge others but it is to check the level of your faith so that you may pray and ask for it to grow.
How to give: Another indicator that never fails when checking your faith is your way of giving i.e. when it comes to support God's work or helping the poor (widows and orphans). Someone can give the impression of being very spiritual because of his zeal in God's work or the hours he spends in prayer but when it comes to give or to support the work of God or the poor, he prefers to hide. The fact that he does not want to give is a clear proof of his faith weakness because his physical eyes show him that he will lose by giving but he who has faith rely on his spiritual eyes that show him that giving means to sow and if you sow in a good soil you will eventually reap.
A farmer who sows a seed in the ground hopes that something will come out of the earth because his faith is based on the law of the nature. God wants us to be like this farmer and that our faith would rather be based on the Word of God and His promises.
In the fifth part, I will end this teaching by talking about the other two ways of checking our level of faith.
Chris Ndikumana
