How To Speak What You Believe and Believe What You Speak!

The persuit of inner peace is a common quest of us all. I believe it is attained, at least somewhat, by bridging the gap between what we say we believe and what we really believe. When we find that consistency we find the satisfaction of living out who we really are. Self-genuineness causes the waring parts of our inner being to find peace. Inner happiness is the result.

Speaking and Believing Validate Each Other

To speak what you believe is simply to validate your belief system by practicing it in speech and life. To believe what you speak is to validate your conversation with a consistent faith. Actually, this is an adequate picture of a stable person. Only as such can an individual achieve inner peace and happiness.

It Is All About Faith. What Is Your Definition Of Faith - Your Meaning Of Faith?

It was the great Martin Luther (1483-1546) who shook the Holy Roman Empire with his introduction of the then new concept of “justification by faith.” Like, as the genius Einstein rewrote all science textbooks of the 20^th century by describing mathematically the relationship between energy, mass and the constancy of light, Luther described in a practical sense that there was a relationship between justification (a right relationship with God), faith (absolute trust in God) and right living (the life style that results).

Justification by Faith

He concluded that “Justification by faith” was the one and firm rock” of the Christian faith and that this justification was completely the work of God attainable only through the faith in Christ Jesus as messiah. (For more information see Martin Luther from Wikipedia.)

Conclusions:

The conclusion I draw from this is that I, then, live out who I am by what my faith has made me. This is also true for any person of any religion or lack thereof. What we actually believe is revealed completely in the entirety of our speech and lives. Equally, the way we live completely reveals our measures of faith.

Any exceptions to this are signs of instability. This is revealed when we stagger between faith and speaking (our life style); we use speaking to fool others (and ourselves) in a vain hope to rescue ourselves from doubt. The pursuit of inner happiness is our efforts to bridge this inner gap between speaking (our life style) and faith (our trusts and beliefs).

My Four Suggestions. To help you speak what you believe and believe what you speak, I suggest the following:

1. Face Your Fear and Lack of Faith!

The first step to any healing is always confession. Everyone falls short. To acknowledge it enable us to come to come to grips with who we are. We have head knowledge but lack assurance. To face this void is to look for a place to position our trusts.

2. Replace Doubts With Positive Affirmations!

Ok, I know I fall short, but I also know that I am valuable enough to confess that I will not give up. This act of continuity marries faith and speech. I am living out what I say and I am speaking out what I live.

3. Major on Consistency of Achievement; Minor on Failures.

Many times I have energetically spoken out, sounding gongs of great personal faith. Although meaning well, I messed up, and my faith was shattered like an unlucky broken mirror. However, there have been times when my faith has brought me through crises times. For example, I am a kidney transplant patient and during that ordeal, I greatly struggled between consistent faith and my public acknowledgment of trust in God. I overcame! Conclusion: I acknowledge the inconsistency, but I major on every day that I was steady with my faith!

4. Realize That This Is A Growing Process.

Don't get too down on yourself if you feel pathetic in the belief area. Don't spend energy on self-condemnation. None of us have arrived spiritually. We are all growing up internally at different rates. The most significant thing is that we are emergent believers. Hopefully, you have more devotion than you did a year ago. If not, pray for it. The Lord wants to give it!

Help From the Bible (KJV) John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God

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