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WEAK FAITH

Recently I have been thinking about faith and what is strong faith and what is weak faith. I get upset with myself when I feel my faith is weak but I now in the last month have come to a conclusion about faith and here it is... "Faith is like the Aurora Borealis... ever-changing and evolving and a mystical beauty within the body of Christ." So I realize I must not get upset with myself when I feel my faith weak but realize I will throughout my lifetime have a faith that will have times of strength and times of weakness. That is the reality of the human condition in a sin fallen world who chooses to have faith in Jesus Christ. But we as people of faith have some control over the length of time our faith is weak or strong. 
I would venture to say that if we as a people of faith were to put in place the spiritual disciplines of praying daily and reading the Holy Bible on a daily basis would go a long way in helping keep our faith strong. Added to this a weekly church worship service and the taking of the Holy Communion would keep our faith muscles strong. 
Now this is not to say this is a magical potion and nothing after this will ever shake your faith or Satan and his demons will stop tempting you but you will be in a much better faith condition to fight back and stay strong in your faith, you will win more spiritual battles than lose them. 
When you do feel your faith is weakening do not be ashamed or shy to ask fellow believers to pray for you. We need a faith community because we cannot do this alone nor are we expected to do this alone. Did not Jesus gather in community and did not Jesus go regularly to the synagogue.

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