Many people across the globe maintain a particular religious “position” as a birthright. They assume they are “something” because they were born into a community of certain “faith” adherents. Such identifiers lack an association of faith in a dynamic or intrinsic experience of present awareness and understanding of divine influence. Faith lives. Traditions are remembrances of others experiences or worse, remembrances of others practices without a comprehension of meaning or purpose. Those who adopt traditions without personal faith and experience do so largely to the neglect of their own spiritual awareness and authentic faith relationships.
Persons without living faith sometimes adopt eclecticism as a pattern for accepting any and all influences as just that, influences; again without a personal, living faith relationship. Traditions can drive behaviors across generations of religious adherents, but it does not drive faith. It may allow for names and places and personages to be claimed, but it does not allow for the transforming awareness of divine action and presence in one’s own life.
The testimony of Judeo-Christian scriptures bears the marks and witness of many who experience a living faith experience. It also bears the testimony of those who received traditions without such faith experiences. One lives, the other falters. Why?
Living faith is required to comprehend a living God. Those who bury their Savior and ignore His resurrection to life in their own practice of faith ignore the basis of experiences that are transformative and eternal. Jesus saves. He brings the spiritually dead to life. He brings life even to the physically dying. Because in Him there is life abundant. Faith lives!
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