A Revelation of Faith

Chapter 5

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Faith is confessing with your mouth what your heart already knows.

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As we travel down the famous Romans road we come across Romans 10:9–10, which reads:

That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

This is every Christian’s confession of faith.

Now let us focus where it speaks about the heart or the inner man, which is the Spirit. In Romans 12:3 it states that everyone is given a measure of faith. It is up to you what you will or will not believe with that faith. The choice is yours. I would like to believe that God gives us this small portion as a foundation, to jump start our faith in Him. I fully believe that even atheists know that there is a God. Why else do they spend so much time arguing about a God that they say doesn’t exist?

The truth is they know He does exist, but they are not willing to submit themselves to His will. If we were to sit down with nonbelievers and begin to ask them questions regarding what they believe, whether or not there is a heaven or hell, where they would go when they die, we just might be surprised.

The thing is, we all believe something. It may not be correct, but we do believe. If you were to think back before you were saved, you might remember that you believed there was a heaven and a hell, and most of all that there is a God. You may not have understood how or even why you believed this, but for some reason you did. Why?

I believe it is because of the measure of faith we are given, that foundation that we are to build on. God instilled it in us so we would search for Him. Notice that it has been placed in our hearts and not in our heads. For we as humans are able to change our minds about whatever we will, but only God can change the heart. So what is faith? Faith is confessing with your mouth what your heart already knows.

Our inner man, or our spirit, knows and desires for an answer to, “Is there a God?” If our inner man didn’t long for or desire to know, then why are there so many different types of religions in the world today? After all, the word religion means, “to be in search of.” So if we are searching, then we must believe that a God does exist.

Take NASA, for example. They send up satellites, space shuttles, and other unmanned flights into outer space looking for the possibility of life on other planets. But if someone says they believe in UFOs, people think they’re crazy. Yet NASA has been doing this for decades, spending billions of US dollars, and no one laughs at them. NASA and other scientists continue to search for the beginning of life and the meaning of life in outer space, but they need only to search no further than the Bible. Just as they use telescopes and microscopes as a tool to see the unseen, we as Christians have a tool as well, and it is called faith. Our faith allows us to see what unbelievers cannot see, just as their telescopes and microscopes allow them to see that which cannot be seen with the naked eye. While we both have tools to find what we are searching for, ours is already here, and most importantly you do not have to go out searching for it. All you have to do is to call upon the name of the Lord, and you will find Him.

Others establish their religions around a god they can control. Well if you can control him, then he really isn’t god. They search for their god in science and even in cartoons. Yet we as Christians know where our God is. He is not in outer space or in science, or a cartoon. His throne is in heaven, and His Spirit lives within our hearts as John 14:17 says, “The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.” It is because He dwells within our hearts that we are able to confess Jesus as Lord. So, faith is confessing with your mouth what your heart already knows.