Many treat Christian faith like magic—as though it’s a meter in a video game that has to be filled up to cast a spell. “If you do something in faith and it doesn’t work, you must not have enough faith,” they say.
I disagree. Christian faith is about Jesus, in whom we put our attention on. It’s about the actions and movements we make on Jesus’s behalf. It’s about how we choose to think of our situations in light of Jesus. It’s about obedient collaboration with Jesus. It’s about living in allegiance to the Christ we call King.
Faith is a long game. Faith is about standing firm in God’s promises even when those promises have seemingly fallen apart. Faith is about persistently storming the gates of Hell, with the full awareness that Hell will strike you back. Faith isn’t driven by the wind of the storm, but by the wind of the Spirit. Faith aligns itself with the calculations and recalculations of Heaven, so that when new things become broken things, they might become new things again.
God is not powerless to do what he said he would do if we are faithful. Jesus has a way of turning death into life when we are faithful. The Holy Spirit has a way of guiding us toward and empowering us for impossible things when we are faithful.
Faith is about Jesus, which is about faithfulness, which is about faith. Faith is a mindset—a way of life.
So where is your faith focused? On a meter that fluctuates each day or on Christ who does not?
Jamin Bradley 
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