Jesus, the Lover and Forgiver Par Excellence (Part III)

Faith
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By Prof. Anton Meemana

Faith and Values

To cultivate faith in Jesus is to become a man like Jesus. To sustain faith in Jesus is to live like Jesus. Jesus was the happiest and the most joyful man ever lived on earth for he had the perfect faith. The deeper one’s faith is, the more exuberant one’s deep-seated joy becomes. Faithfulness means the stability of the heart and only such people can become deeply loyal to their spouses, friends, country, church, creed, culture, convictions and Faith is toiling, labouring, sweating and suffering without expecting immediate results during one’s life time. Faith is its own reward for we may not be able to see the fruits of our own toiling in our life time. Faith assures me, guarantees me, promises me that it will bring forth fruit thirtyfold, sixtyfold and a hundred fold unbeknownst to us. Faith will shatter, scatter and litter our conventional and complacent ways of thinking and our frozen lazy, cozy and rosy habits. It challenges our neat and ready-made categories about what is to be human.

Trials and Triumphs of Faith

Faith is the transvaluation of all our cherished human values. Faith transforms, purifies and deepens our conventional cultural values.

Jesus donated his life totally, utterly, completely and voluntarily out of love for us. He is the Lord of life. He in fact made a conscious decision to donate his life for us so that we may continue to live fully and joyfully. “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10).

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