Faith

Faith is big today. How often you have heard someone discribed as a person of faith or you have heard someone say that their faith would get them through. But what do they mean by that? What is faith?
The picture of faith is my grandson jumping into the pool. Everything in his little mind says don't jump but he trusts his daddy and his daddy says jump so he overcomes his feelings and he jumps.
Peter says, "Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:" 1 Peter 1:1
There are a few things that we should notice about this faith. It is not a feeling but it is confidence in the truth claims of God and he calls this faith precious. This faith is not something we conjure up in ourselves but it is given to us by God Himself.