Faithfully Believing

Today as I was studying the book of Ephesians along with my good pal Beth I was struck by characteristics of people who live with active faith:

* people with faith love others
* faith opened the door for the gift of salvation
* we have access to God through faith
* Christ dwells in the heart's of those who have faith
* only faith in the Lord is proper/true
* faith brings unity
* faith protects us
* without faith there is no love

Pretty vitale to the Christian walk, wouldn't you say? I've gone ahead and highlighted the truths that I need to work on especially. I've never really had a problem believing that there is a God and that the gift of His Son's death on the cross saved me from my sins (with the exception of one circumstance in my life which I will relate at a later time) but do I really love others and hunger for unity? So often it is much more "fun" to pick apart other people, to knock down and destroy--I have always used too much sarcasm (case in point, Most Sarcastic was my senior superlative...) and let's face it--it's fun to gossip and bond over how annoying other people/places/things can be. You know what's not fun? Hurting feelings or being hurt.

I pray that the Lord will give me the ability to love others without judgement and to hunger for unity among my believing sisters and brothers.

Will you pray with me?

p.s. I know a couple of you are doing/are interested in looking at this study again--I'd love to go through this with anyone who is =)