By Faith

Faith... This has been a topic which I have been wrestling for the past few days. I wanted to know that faith is, how it works and what is the importance of faith. With all this questions in mind I read the faith chapter (Hebrews 11), which gave me a brief idea of faith but I was surprised to see some one's name in the list of Faith warriors. Paul list a number of people in the list including Abel, Abraham, Moses, Enoch in this chapter. Well I have read about their faith in the old testament so that seemed normal to me but I was surprised when I read verse 11, Paul says "By faith even Sarah herself received the ability to conceive [a child], even [when she was long] past the normal age for it, because she considered Him who had given her the promise to be reliable and true [to His word]." Now here is someone who laughed at God when He gave Abraham the promise. Yet she became one in the list because she trusted God later on and put her complete faith in Him. 

So its not about how you start, its about how you finish. There might be times when we are lacking the faith in God, there might be times when we think why our breakthrough is not coming. At the beginning of Luke 18, Jesus tells a parable and ends it with a question "However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find [this kind of persistent] faith on the Earth?". Its clear that Jesus expects us to have a persistent faith and I am going to have exactly that. Just keep on believing, build your faith like Sarah did and you will be commented like how Sarah is commented in verse 11.