FAITH

To strengthen another man’s faith, you must exhibit strength in your own

Faith is confidence in what one hopes for and assurance about what one cannot see. A faithful man rests his hope in the God he believes to be sovereign over all that is visible and invisible. But a man without faith will place his hope in human hands because it is only the things of this World that he can see.

When the World has sufficiently failed the faithless man such that he begins to doubt the ultimate sovereignty of man, a seed of faith may find purchase in his heart. If so, he will become a seeker of the truth of his existence.

Initially, that seed will only produce a weak and vulnerable reed that will whither unless strengthened through forcible contact with a man whose faith is deeply rooted in transcendent and spiritual reality.

To have convincing force, the faithful man must embody Godliness in all he says and does, engage confidently with the seeker, explain truth competently, and encourage the man to press on when World tries to reclaim him. This is how he exhibits strength in his own faith.

To strengthen another man’s faith, you must exhibit strength in your own