Is Your Faith Real? (Part 1)

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.  C.S. Lewis, From "A Grief Observed."


What in your life depends so much on God that if He doesn't come through you simply won't make it? Moses and the Israelites at the climax of God's deliverance knew the answer to your question.


The Red Sea is in front of Moses and the Israelites.
Pharaoh and his armies are behind them.


There is no escaping the Egyptians or the Red Sea.
But God is there.  His angel.  His Cloud.  His Servant Moses.


We read this Biblical story in awe, but sometimes don't see that we are now the children of God, the chosen people of God on earth.  This means that God will put us on display in the same way.  He will make it known through our lives that He alone is the true God, our only Deliverer, our only deliverance.  This shouldn't surprise us, because this is how He saved us.


The truth or falsehood of the gospel of Jesus Christ is a matter of life and death to you and me.  If it is true, we have eternal life by believing in Jesus.  If it is not true, we might as well commit suicide.  Because our lives are based on believing something that means life or death to us, how much more will our life of faith mean that if God isn't with us, we are as good as dead?