Belief, believe, Trust, God, Relationship, Obedience Meg Elizabeth Brown Belief, believe, Trust, God, Relationship, Obedience Meg Elizabeth Brown

Belief That Moves: When Faith Becomes Obedience

What if believing God means more than agreeing that He is telling the truth?

During a recent church service, I was suddenly struck by a Greek word.

You may not know me well, but Greek words don’t typically pull me out of a sermon to open my LOGOS app and start researching. But for Hebrew words? (Every time.)

But that Sunday, the Greek word pisteuō, often translated as "believe," caught my attention. The idea of believing something so deeply that it shapes how we live reminded me of a Hebrew word I have loved for years: shemaʿ (shama’). And that sent me down a little biblical rabbit trail.

What happens when we place the Greek concept of believing alongside the Hebrew understanding of hearing? We begin to see something beautiful about the relationship between faith, trust, and obedience.

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Goodness of God, Goodness, God, God the Father, Behold, Prophets, Ezekiel, Lamentations, 2 Peter, Sin, Confession, Belief Stacy Sagely Goodness of God, Goodness, God, God the Father, Behold, Prophets, Ezekiel, Lamentations, 2 Peter, Sin, Confession, Belief Stacy Sagely

The Goodness of God: In the Prophets

There are mornings when I open my Bible out of obedience and routine.  I know I need to be in it—and deep down, I want to be in it—but like the words of Ezekiel, my bones are dry. 

 It happened today.

I had something I knew I needed to deal with, but my want-to just wasn’t up-to it.  I considered King David’s repentant words in Psalm 51 (a frequent flier in my own battle with sin) but found myself in Ezekiel 37 instead.  Can I just tell you how much I love those first 14 verses? 

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Spiritual Disciplines, Jesus' Habits, Jesus, As Was His Custom, Belief, Repentance, Follow Jesus Meg Elizabeth Brown Spiritual Disciplines, Jesus' Habits, Jesus, As Was His Custom, Belief, Repentance, Follow Jesus Meg Elizabeth Brown

As Was His Custom: Repent. Believe. Follow.

It wasn’t until I sat in a discipleship seminar that a lightbulb blazed on inside my soul. It was the realization that Jesus preached the Gospel.

Wait- what? I thought the Gospel was Him.

And it is. Jesus is a BIG PART of it. But there’s more. And when I realized what He preached about, when He was preaching about the Gospel, all the bells and whistles began to sync together into a perfectly harmonized song.

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