Made New – Week 4 – How is Life Made New?
We’ve all found ourselves stuck in life. Either we developed a habit that’s beyond a New Year’s resolution fix. Or we got a divorce or had a moral failure or we just feel purposeless, & we want something new. How?
Faith
We believe that when we put our faith in Jesus He makes our lives new. He will lead us on a journey of becoming the people He created us to be. It’ll be rocky. There will be setbacks, but He will continually renew us.
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
Faith is confidence. I am confident I’ve put my faith in the most logical worldview, the most logical explanation for the existence of the world. – The world likes to conflate 2 different kinds of faith. There’s real faith. That’s when you trust in something for a reason. – The world believes everything came from nothing. I believe everything came from something. Which one’s more logical? I am confident there’s a God, and that gives me hope.
Faith gives me hope. If I trust God, I hope that He has a good plan for me. If I trust my wife, I hope that we’re going to live a good life together. If I trust this stage, I have logical hope it’s not going to break. – Then there’s Blind Faith. There is a reason why you have to add the word “blind.” It’s a different thing than faith. We do not have blind faith. We have evidence of what we put our faith in and because it’s blind, it doesn’t give us hope.