Verse of the Day 5/20

Through the Bible - 1 Chronicles 3-5, John 8:12-38

Good morning,
For today's verse we'll go to 2 Corinthians 4.
Question 21 of the Heidelberg Catechism asks "What is true faith"? The answere given is:
"True faith is not only a certain knowledge, whereby I hold for truth all that God has revealed to us in his word, (a) but also assured confidence, (b) which the Holy Ghost (c) works by the gospel in my heart; (d) that not only to others, but to me also, remission of sin, everlasting righteousness and salvation, (e) are freely given by God, merely of grace, only for the sake of Christ's merits."
There's a lot there to digest, you could probably spend a day considering the different points and what they mean for us.
One of the supporting verses that the catechism references is 2 Corinthians 4:13 which is today's verse.
13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,”[a]we also believe and therefore speak, 14 knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you. NKJV

or read it from the Message:
13-15We're not keeping this quiet, not on your life. Just like the psalmist who wrote, "I believed it, so I said it," we say what we believe. And what we believe is that the One who raised up the Master Jesus will just as certainly raise us up with you, alive. Every detail works to your advantage and to God's glory: more and more grace, more and more people, more and more praise!
Do you speak of your faith, share your faith?
J.C. Ryle wrote in "True Christianity":
"True faith isn not mere "mental assent" to certain theological propositions - but a living, burning, active principle- which works by love, purifies the heart, overcomes the world, and brings forth much fruit of holiness and good works. Let us live as if we really believed every jot and tittle of Scripture- and as if a dying, risen, interceding, and coming Christ, were continually before our eyes."Would that describe my faith, your faith? If not may we pray that God give us more grace and to increase our faith that it would be a living, burning, and acting faith that "overcomes" the world our troubles and our fears.
In Christ,
Mike
Cast Down but Unconquered

7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 8 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— 10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death is working in us, but life in you.
13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, accordi ng to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,”[a]we also believe and therefore speak, 14 knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you. 15 For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.