And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness. – Colossians 2:6-7(NLT)
Where will you be ten years from now? What will you be doing in five years’ time?
Questions like these are often asked whenever others or ourselves contemplate our future. Occasionally we may ask the question, “Who will I be?” The answers to all of these questions is pure speculation based on what we are doing and where we think we are going. We know it will be based on our experiences past and present, but we cannot be sure if we will be right or wrong. The only we do know is that we will most likely change as we learn more about life.
However, there is an even more rare question that those who have been saved ask and that is, “What will your faith be?” Just like our lives, careers and relationships change and grow over the years, so too should our faith. God doesn’t want our faith to become stagnant, staying in one place and not going anywhere. He doesn’t want our faith to be the same in ten years’ time.
When we look back at our lives, we wish we could go back to certain times but as the person we have become and not as the person we were back then. Our knowledge has increased and the way we see things has changed. We have changed and most of the time is it for the good. The process of becoming who we are now may have been painful or it may have been trouble-free. No matter what the process it was built upon foundations that were established at some point in your life.
Our faith is built on the foundation of our salvation. The salvation seed produced roots that were firmly established but if they failed to grow there would be no fruit. Faith needs to grow to produce a crop. If we don’t nurture our faith, we end up staying where we are or dying. Staying in the same place for any length of time without producing anything worthwhile frustrates most humans. We make changes in our lives, and we change ourselves to get a better outcome. The same goes with our faith.
Growing our faith is so important to both God and us that we need to make sure that we do it right. Reading our bible more often, praying more often and seeking God more often are paramount. If we are to grow in our faith, then we need to allow God to change us. The growth in our lives and the growth in our faith are intertwined. The “Who Will I Be” will also be the “What Will my Faith Be” in the future. A future that we will be thankful for no matter what direction God leads us in.
Originally published October 2018