Luke 8:25 “But He said to them, "Where is your faith?" And they were afraid, and marveled, saying to one another, "Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and water, and they obey Him!”
In the previous section we have discussed the importance of faith to the Christian life, and so the question is asked how do we get faith? We have already seen in a previous passage of scripture that it is God Himself who gives us faith. So when does God give us faith? Scripture tells us that God gives life to the dead and calls those things that do not exist as though they did (Romans 4:17). In other words God, who is the creator of all things, creates all things by faith as He calls things that do not exist into existence. And so when God created man, one of the attributes that He gave him was faith, for God is a God of faith and He created man in His own image. In the above quoted passage of scripture our Lord Jesus asked His disciples the question, “where is your faith”? The reason Jesus asked them that question was because He knew that they had faith, for He is the one who gave them faith when He created them. The gospels reveal to us that multitudes were healed under the ministry of Jesus, and almost all were healed by exercising their faith in His ability to heal, for time and again our Lord would say to those who were healed under His ministry, “your faith has made you well”. So where did those people get their faith? The answer is that God gave it to each one of them when He created them.
Michael E.B. Maher
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