Having Fatih in Jesus Christ

    Jesus Christ has been one of the most popular teachers this world has ever had. His teaching and parables have been popular for the past 2000 years! Many have used his teaching in their lives and their families at home. Many of the stories of the bible prophesy of his coming. And after his death many Christian churches have been made from his teachings that have changed people's lives and encourage many to follow his teachings. But what was the main point he wanted us to learn? What was his gospel? 

                                      

        The first step before we should even study about Jesus Christ is having faith in him. Me being born in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, I always had that faith and I could see it in my parents as well. But what is faith? I always like to connect faith with an orange. If we see an orange and we want to peel it, what can we hope will be inside? Of course the juice of the orange would be the right answer, even if we can't see it we know it will be inside there. Many think faith is similar to hope, but the difference is that faith is something we will know for sure will happen or has happen, hope is an expectation or desire for something to happen. It also gives us a connection with God, in the bible on James 1:5-6 it says "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed." If we truly want to have that faith and that knowledge knowing for a fact that Jesus Christ lived we must asked God. Otherwise we can be in other faiths being driven back and forth. Another reason why faith plays a huge role in the gospel is because it leads towards action. 

   

                                     

      When Jesus Christ called his apostles, being fisherman and having little experience preaching, they had to exercise their faith in following him. One of the most famous stories that played a big part in the New Testament of the bible was Saul. We learn that Saul attacked the church of Jesus Christ. He persecuted the saints until he had that change where he realized what he was doing was wrong, later on he changes his name to Paul. Another example of action by faith is in the Book of Mormon. Where it talks about a family who their father was a prophet called Lehi. He was then commanded to leave Jerusalem and go to the wilderness since the Babylonians where gonna attack Jerusalem. Their son called Nephi, in the book of Nephi chapter 17 verses 8 and 9 it says "And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto me, saying: Thou shalt construct a ship, after the manner which I shall show thee, that I may carry thy people across these waters. And I said: Lord, whither shall I go that I may find ore to molten, that I may make tools to construct the ship after the manner which thou hast shown unto me?" As we see in these scripture, Nephi having that faith and trust with God helped him have the courage to build a ship witch he had no expiriance building one before. 

  

      

    Because of his faith in God he managed to succeed even when his brothers did not support him, and he managed to get his family to the American continent and start a civilazation there. If we have faith is Jesus Christ then it should be natural for us to apply what he teaches. Many feel like being saved by grace is enough but in James 2: 17-18 it says "Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works." Many of the other topics of his gospel including repentance, baptism, gift of the Holy Ghost that will be a topic latter on in the blog, are the works James is talking about. 

    Another reason why faith is necessary is because it helps us see miracles. 

      

  People sometimes refuse to have faith unless they see or expiriance a miracle. Before I became a missionary I talked with a couple of atheist, ex Christian and people who fell alway from their faith. They all claimed I was lost since I had faith for something I did not see or touch. I will be honest having faith takes a lot of personal strength, but something that I could always remember and come back to was an expiriance when I was a child and lived in Guatemala. For me being a child and having a pet meant everything. My little brother had won a small chick that latter became a roster. I loved that rooster, me and my family would feed it and it pretty much became part of the family. One day as I stayed at my grandmas house, we brought the rooster and we decided to put it in the backyard next to the pool. Before I went to sleep I had a feeling I should check on the rooster. I asked my grandma "can you check on him?", she then would say "I'm sure he is fine don't worry just get ready to sleep." However I keeped asking until eventually she decided to go check on the rooster. As I went with her we found him inside the pool dead. I freaked out and we took it out and put it inside a bucket. We tried to see if we could wake him up but it was not moving since it drowned. I then told my grandma if I could pray at least. She said of course and I started to pray out loud, I asked that if my rooster could be okay but that it was Gods will of what he should do. Later that night I went to bed and my grandma put the rooster next to a heater so that it could dry. On that mormoning my grandma walked down to check on the rooster. To her surprised it was alive again! It was well and as I walked down to I was happy to see my rooster and it got to live a few more years. If God cares for a rooster that later on died, he cares about your salvation and about you, but you first have to believe and have faith. A quote I heard once was "what's a mob to a king? What's a king to a God? What's a God to an unbeliever who don't believe in anything?" You yourself might have seen a miricle and said you saw it without faith, well then how do we know it came from God? Maybe you say you don't need miracles, well then what will build your faith? And you are missing out on many things. Jesus Christ always did miracles because of the faith of the Jews and of the faith of the nephites, but first they needed to have faith. I invite all of you to keep finding that faith in Jesus Christ, because for his gospel having faith is the first step.