Someone asked me a question today. “Where does my conviction of my faith come from”? That really triggered a lot of thoughts in my head. I am still learning and thinking on this but I feel that my conviction of my faith comes from the more time I spend with God (of course) but more importantly the more times I obey God.
I meet these people all the time that just inspire me spiritually and make me want to influence others the way that they do. I feel like their conviction in their faith is just resonated through their obedience. They read their Bible . . yeah, they fellowship with other Christians. . yeah, they have a great prayer time . . I’m sure, but when God puts those words down, answers their prayers (even the way they don’t want them to be answered) they do what He says. . . bottom line. A lot of us hear God and maybe obey on a lot of things that we don’t want to obey with, but we skip those certain things. We skip them because we don’t see the “big picture” or we don’t see the positive because we are too busy thinking of the negative. We don’t have the faith that He knows what’s best or we would OBEY Him. Then we forget God ever told us to do what He asked us to do.
Later on, it may come up again and we ignore it again and again. What I really mean by all this is that our conviction comes from obeying Gods’ words, and seeing His plan pay off spiritually. The more you obey Him makes you more passionate and confident in His words. That confidence will come in handy in those tough decisions
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