The foundation of faith is a conviction that you have encountered the God who has revealed Himself in the Bible. Out of this you have been convinced of the need to get right with God. This led you to repentance towards God and faith in Jesus Christ who suffered for sin in your place. This set you right with God and filled you with a sure and certain hope of eternal life.

This is a bit like a blind man who met with Jesus. He was given his sight and could say to anyone who challenged the truth or reality of his experience, “One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”

Read John’s Gospel chapter 9

This initial experience does not require any deep or complicated understanding it involves simple knowledge that God has received you through what Jesus has done for you. Your knowledge is based on the fact that God has brought you to a new birth, You have been born again! Born of the Holy Spirit of God. A miracle of God’s Grace.

These web thoughts contain some things that will help that knowledge to grow. You ought to be like a baby, needing milk, needing love and care. Later you want to move, get up and walk, to grow up. God will do everything possible to encourage you in this but He will want you to choose to obey Him and follow the Way of Jesus and the teaching of the Bible. It can be daunting, scary, but taking these steps means that God has another child who is willing to show what He is like, a loving Father. This challenge is a bit like a young man that Jesus healed. His friends brought him to Jesus on a mattress. He could not walk. Jesus forgave his sins and told him, “stand up, take your mat, and go to your home.” Do you think he preferred to stay laying down? Doing Nothing?

Read Mark’s Gospel chapter 2:1-12