Faith And Believing

Faith and Believing

Faith is a noun; Believe is a verb – an analysis of these two words may help you in trusting the Lord. Believing, being a verb, is an action word – it really means “taking”; to believe in a Biblical sense means “to take”, “to grasp. To believe Jesus means to take Jesus for all that the Scrip¬tures declare Him to be. To believe on Christ as a Saviour means to take Christ as a Saviour; to believe in Christ as a healer means to take Him as your healer and recognize Him as your healer.

Believing is an act of the will; when I believe, I have acted -having acted, I have reached what is called Faith. Faith is a noun. I take a step – having taken the step, I have arrived.
Arriving is Faith. To believe, then, is to act on the Word of God. Faith is action. Doubting is refusing to act on the Word.

There are two kinds of Unbelief: first, a refusal to act on the knowledge of the Word that we have. This can be called unpersuadableness – we refuse to be persuaded to act on what we know to be true; we refuse to act in the light of knowledge.

The other kind of Unbelief arises from a lack of knowledge of the Word. We do not know; hence, we cannot act. We do not understand; hence, we are afraid to act. We would act, but we do not know how to act. The cure for this is knowledge; the cure for the other is obedience.