“Faith is not about being absolutely sure. James 2:18 says, ‘Someone will say, ‘You have faith and I have works.’ Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.’ Faith is both ‘show’ and ‘tell.’” ( source) This is not to say that our works save us, but it is to say that faith works. You know you are faithful when your everyday actions prove what you say you believe. Imagine saying to someone, ‘I love you, but I hate your height.’ Or ‘the size of your feet.’ Or ‘the shape of your face.’” ( source) Rather, they see them as part of their identity, just like the color of their skin or eyes or hair. “It was simply who I was.’ 4 Our gay friends don’t see same-sex relationships as sinful. Rather, biblical faith is a kind of knowledge that is worth acting on with eyes wide open, because it is based on good reasons.” ( source)
Biblical faith is not merely about the power of belief (though beliefs certainly have the power to harm or help us). Biblical faith isn’t believing something so strongly that it moves from being untrue to being true. “‘Just have faith,’ we say, meaning ‘Hang in there.’ Yet the Bible doesn’t tell us to ‘just have faith.’ It tells us to live out our faith.
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