How important is belief?
We are all in the process of believing
Your belief is your reality.
This means a person’s life is what he believes.
You cannot separate people from their beliefs. Their beliefs are not a part of them. It is them.
You are your belief.
You cannot be someone having this other belief. Your you is actually the same as your belief.
Your you is in “existence” because of your belief.
People’s beliefs are their life, the type of work they do, the type of friends they have, the type of place they live, the type of dress they wear, what they say, how they act, where they live, what they eat, their moods, their successes and failures.
People are their beliefs.
So when Abraham believed God, he became righteous not really because he was “given” the nature of righteousness as a consequence of believing, no, he became righteous because he BELIEVED God.
In other sense, his life became God.
Remember, your belief is your life. So believing in God means God is now your life, and since the nature of God is righteousness, it is normal for him to have the same nature.
This is the same thing that happened to us.
When we believe in God, we don’t “have” God’s nature as an added thing to our lives, but our very life itself is God.
You can imagine how strange it is for us to think we are any different or less righteous, holy, or powerful than God is.
We are the same as God in all respects.
We are not different from him.
You become in all respects what you believe.
Now, belief is not a mental confession.
You don’t believe because you say I believe.
It is a conviction that you can die for. It is far deeper than mere confession.
It took Abraham a lot of convincing before he could really believe in God, and that was when he became God.
The same applies to us today.
We are all in the process of believing.
As we keep learning more about God, our belief becomes deeper, and more conviction is born. This is what transformation is - a deeper level of belief.
You can verbally say you believe in God, but the true state of our belief shows in how we trust and obey him.
As we journey, we will get to that place as Abraham did, where he concluded in his heart that even if he killed his son Isaac, God could raise him from the dead.
Why?
Because God had already told him previously that Isaac is the son of promise.
At that point of belief, Abraham knew Isaac could NEVER DIE.
It wasn’t a mental confession. He had already been persuaded beyond doubt.
So, is it really true that you believe in God?
Only your life (which is the same as your true belief, not the one you say with your mouth) can answer that.
We are all just at different levels of belief.