Faith
It seems there's much confusion in the Christian world today
Exactly what is Christian faith for those who trust the Way
Some think it's just believing others think it's so much more
But what lies in the scriptures is what God is looking for
If it were just believing then that is what we'd be told
Believe would be the word most used from all the days of old
Or trusting in some power outside of what we can do
Then surely trust would be the word God shares with me and you
But faith is more specific of much greater things than these
Faith comes from many hours in God's presence on our knees
Developing the little that we're given at our birth
To living life in victory while still upon this earth
For to find definition of what faith should mean to us
We must first seek the Author of the scriptures we're to trust
And ask Him for His guidance by His Spirit to reveal
This element He's seeking for in those He plans to seal
And so we start with Hebrews long into this book divine
In verse one of the chapter of the people we will find
Though fallen lived by faith in God to gain the victory
Expounded on for those of us who learn from history
Where faith is called the substance of the thing that One hopes for
The evidence of that unseen that guides the Christian more
Than feelings or traditions that distort what scriptures say
For faith is most essential for the ones who choose to pray
For as the Proverbs tell us in the words God shared from Him
It is the heart He's wanting in the souls of all of them
Who claim to be His people though confused at times they be
When fully given this is faith revealed by what we see
For like the little school girl who adores the boy she knows
The things she wears the way she talks in everything she shows
The one on whom she's focused and on whom her faith depends
Until they lose their first love and their glow grows dim and ends
We too can have that faith glow that's revealed in all we do
That's constantly illuminating those God brings us to
With warmth brought from God's presence where our heart's entwined with His
That's vitally important to that faith for times like this
Hebrews 11:1-40; Proverbs 23:26