Most people can easily believe if you jump out of an airplane with a parachute, pull the rip cord, and the parachute will open allowing you to safely land to the ground.
However, it is another thing to take the next step of putting the parachute on, jumping out of the plane, pulling the rip cord, and safely landing on the ground. This does not only require belief; but it also requires faith.
This points to the major difference between faith and belief, because faith requires you to act on what you believe. You can’t just think it; you must turn it into an action.
James wrote in 2:17, that, “In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”
Can you believe in God, and not have faith in Him? I don’t believe you have to look very far to realize that Christians can believe in God and lack faith in Him. I know sometimes I do. There have been times in my life when I have believed in God, but my faith in His ability to come through in the moment was missing.
The test of this was not what I thought or said, but what I did. The actions that I took showed I was lacking faith in the moment. I could probably make the case this is true of every believer.
At some point in your life, even though you knew God’s promises and could sing about His faithfulness, you struggled to act in faith because you were unsure of the results. This does not deny your Christianity; it simply reveals your humanity.
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