Our daily battle
15 July 2009

We know that life does not depend on luck, opportunities, money or even on our qualifications. Our life depends only on faith.

The “wise” have answers for everything. But when they are faced with family, financial or health problems, they don’t have a solution.

When our faith is down, doubt rises up. When that happens, finding a solution seems impossible, and the person becomes powerless before their problems—even the insignificant ones.

But when faith rises up, doubt automatically shrinks down. Then the problems, difficulties, tribulations and the like become insignificant—even when they seem unbearable.

The big difficulty is to remain in faith! It’s not enough to have faith for some time. We’ve got to live it out at every moment. For this reason, it’s important to invest in our faith day after day, all the time.

How? By setting our mind on the things of God.

There are people who fulfil their “vows” with God on Sunday mornings, and then they relax in their faith—after all, they think they have already fulfilled their religious duty. This is a terrible mistake! Our enemy stays away when our faith is up. But when he sees that our faith is weak or relaxed, he immediately attacks us.

When we are in faith, our body becomes full of light; but when we doubt, that light is switched off. Then, we become easy prey for the devil.

Note that problems always rise when our faith is down… Am I right?

That’s why the Holy Spirit teaches us to fight the good fight of faith in order to lay hold of eternal life (1 Timothy 6.12).

By Bishop Macedo