3 Sure Ways To Lose Your Faith

Galatians 4:8-9

“Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods. Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental spirits? How can you want to be enslaved to them again?”

3 Sure Ways To Lose Your Faith (This is not a good thing)

1.     Take your eyes off of Jesus: Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection should be at the center of our lives. When Jesus is not at the core of who we are then our faith and worship will always be relegated to something else to fill us. Being made in the image of God, we all worship. When we do not worship Jesus, we will always be left worshiping something or someone else. We will fill our hearts, which desire to worship God, with foreign things, unfit for worship--the result: emptiness and hopelessness. Jesus must be the only idol in our lives! A sure way to lose our faith is through losing sight of who Jesus is in our lives…he is everything!

2.     Forgetting to remember: Failing to remember that the promises of God has freed our lives, and futures, inevitably lead to losing sight of the One who set us free.  We must be people who remember the calling God has placed on our lives; we are a holy priesthood. Never forget that God has created us as new creations. In addition, a failure to remember the slavery that God ripped us from will ultimately leave us with our guard down and open to opportunities of deception. The thing / things (idols) that once enslaved us, regardless of what they may be, must always be taken seriously. Know that the power of sin is strong and real. We must not give power to idols, but we should recognize an idol's capacity to gain power and rule our lives. A sure way to lose faith is to forget what God has done, is doing and has promised!

3.     Giving power to idols: Those idols in our lives have no power until we give them power. We must know that those things, which once ruled us, are stripped of their power because of Jesus. We should recognize, as the Apostle Paul points out, that these idols are “weak and beggarly,” in comparison to the great strength of the God who empowers us. A sure way to lose faith is to give power to those dead idols!