Is faith a gift of God?

Note..:- Please read this blog till the ending.

 

May the Today Bible verses help you build a spiritual relationship with God. You read this verse and understand what God is telling you and what God wants from you

To put it into my own words, saving faith is a free and unmerited gift, granted only to undeserving sinners, according to God's sovereign grace, through which we personally receive an irrevocable share in the full salvation accomplished for us by the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Saving Faith

The major point that I hope you will take away from this post is that saving faith is a gift of God, (Eph. 2:8). Such faith is not something man produces within himself, (John 1:11-13). As sobering as it is to recognize, it is important to understand that if God does not grant this undeserved gift to a sinner, their heart remains unchanged, unbelieving, and unredeemed, (Heb. 11:6). If God does not mercifully, powerfully, and irresistibly intervene in our suicidal rebellion against him, we freely and willfully continue plodding our path to perdition, (1 Cor. 1:18). 

So what is saving faith? According to the Westminster Shorter Catechism, saving faith is first and foremost faith that is “in Jesus Christ.” “Faith” as a thing in itself, no matter how sincerely exercised, is no grounds of salvation or favor with God. The only faith which unites a soul to salvation is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, (Acts 4:12). Such faith is properly further understood as “a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon [Christ] alone for salvation,” not according to our own preferences, ideas, or inventions, but rather “as he is offered to us in the gospel,”

To put it into my own words, saving faith is a free and unmerited gift, granted only to undeserving sinners, according to God’s sovereign grace, through which we personally receive an irrevocable share in the full salvation accomplished for us by the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Salvation is not the result of man’s works, man’s efforts, man’s desires, or man’s designs, (John. 6:63). If man is left to himself, he remains dead in his sins, hostile to God, and unwilling to repent and concede the throne of his heart and be saved, (John 6:65). Sin is sometimes misunderstood as a little bit of bad mixed into a person who is otherwise mostly good. But this is not what the Bible teaches, (Rm. 3:12). Sin has so corrupted our hearts that no part of our being is left untainted (Eph. 4:17-19), and our whole will is governed by our rebellious nature (Eph. 2:1-3), leading us to continually reject the only hope of life (2 Thess. 2:10).