Increase Our Faith

How wonderful the Christian walk, how beautiful the saints struggle to continually get up after each fall.  It is a comforting miracle the grace God has given to those who rest in Christ Jesus.  I read this morning Luke 17 and my eyes caught verse 5 in where the apostles ask of Christ, “Increase our faith.”

Yes God! Please, increase our faith.  Give me more each morning Your grace, the choicest of Your virtues, saving faith.  Let me constantly asses and test my faith and look for its authenticity.  You said my faith shall save me, it will heal me.  The righteous shall live by faith.  Now I know that  it is Christ that has saved, that has healed.  I know it is Christ’s righteousness, not infused in me, but imputed to me.  It is Christ alone that saves.  Yet You have given the virtue of faith for being the vehicle of salvation.  Lord, if You have bestowed such an honor to faith than I must seek it out more and more.  Father, my faith has saved me yet I know I must grow in it, I must cling to Christ more, tighter, stronger!  If the Apostles were in need to ask, “increase our faith,” I am doubly in need.  Father give me please more.  Do not just sustain it, do not just keep it, but give me more, increase my faith.  Spurgeon said this of our faith and I echo this as well, that “Christian men are saved by progress: constantly going onwards will keep the Christian alive. If it were possible for me to stop, I know not where my life would be. The Christian must be going onward; for the arrow will mount while still it is in progress, but it stalls the moment the power stops that keeps it aloft. So the apostle said unto the Lord, ‘increase our faith.’” Thank you Lord for your promise of salvation, from beginning to end.  That You will not loose us, that You have secured us.  Keep me Father as You have kept your promises and do so right now with more faith in my heart, I beg of you.  I want to see you more, seek you harder, read your Word more clearly, tell the world of your love more passionately.  I love you  and that is only possible by your gift of faith.  Let me love you and enjoy you more, giving you all glory, forever and ever.  My God and provider, provider of a faith in your most wonderful gift of salvation, Jesus Christ. Amen.