Fewer words have ever been spoken that carry such purpose and meaning for our lives! It is here that we find the two fold operation of faith! Paul writes in his epistle to the saints of Rome, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, the just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:16, 17). Notice these words: "...for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith."

     Our journey in life has a starting point and a finishing point. We are born into this world, but a day will come when each and every one of us will reach our journey's end. Paul said, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith" (2 Timothy 4:7). This journey of faith takes us "from" a starting point of being saved "to" our ultimate purpose and destiny of walking in the light of life. Jesus said, "I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life" (John 8:12). John wrote and said we are to: "...walk in the light as he is in the light...." (1 John 1:5). The moment we become born again we enter into the light. That is where our faith begins. Now that we are in this light we must determine to walk in it until it brings us into the fullness of all God has for us. That is the journey of faith. Peter described it this way when he said, "...who hath called us out of darkness into his marvelous light" (1 Peter 2:9). In other words, we have been called "out of" darkness (that is the point of origin for our faith) "into" his marvelous light (the journey of walking out our faith until we are experiencing the full light of our redemption). 

We have to learn how to lose our vestment of self and become vested with his life until it becomes the only life we know!

     Many years ago, I was drawn to study the message of eternal life. I came to realize that life is the present actual possession of the believer, and that one day it will extend its domain to the sphere of the body. What was the most fascinating revelation to me was the fact that the word "eternal" is all about the quality of life God wants us to live and not necessarily to its duration in a temporal sense. If all we think eternal life is has to do with a promise that one day we will live forever then we have missed the whole point entirely. Life is the key to everything within the gospel. It is what cut us off from our past. It brought us out of darkness. It destroyed, rendering void and ineffective, death that once held sway in our lives. And, it is the key that will usher us into the fullness of all that God designed for us in his original plan for man.

     When Jesus said, "I have come that ye might have life and have it more abundantly" (John 10:10), he was revealing two very important truths. One, everything about his coming was to get us back on track with the life of heaven. Life is where everything started in the garden, and it holds the values of living as God intended. Secondly, he was revealing to us that life is measurable. Here again, we see the principle that takes us right back to the concept "from faith to faith." We discover that eternal life is in the new birth, and now, as believers, we must take our journey of faith into this life until we reach the max! What I mean by that is we have to let life take over. This is the only way we find the path that leads us into all that Christ accomplished for us in redemption. This life is the high and holy calling we will ultimately answer to when the curtain is drawn and everything we did with what way put into our hands comes to light on that day of accountability. Think about the statement Paul makes concerning his own life. He said, "For I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20). We have to learn how to lose our vestment of self and become vested with his life until it becomes the only life we know!

     There are many things I have discovered throughout my walk with Christ but nothing has drawn me any closer to my destiny than to realize my aim must be to walk in the light of life. There is an aspiration within the soul of every believer that once he or she realizes they are called to a life of purpose that nothing can satisfy their heart until they are walking in the full light of it. Once we take hold of this as our quest, focusing all our attention on our calling then we will find the true end of our faith. That is why we must become destiny minded, knowing where our faith is meant to take us!