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How do we practice our faith? Do we add to it each day by striving to make the level of faithfulness that we reached the day before something we can perform automatically…a spiritual reflex? I hope that our faith becomes reflexive and doesn’t require us to relearn or concentrate on it day after day. I pray that our faith becomes ingrained in us by repetition and working to deepen it over time. For this to happen it requires us to continuously practice our liturgy, study scripture, and to do the other things of faith that we have already mastered, and then to build upon them by adding God’s new lessons and revelations atop this foundation. We need to continue practicing what we have heard preached in church, what we have learned during our walk of faith, and then to build upon these things as we continue walking in a newness of faith each day.

We don't find Jesus through an academic study of scripture nearly as much as scripture is revealed to us while walking with Him. Don’t each of us remember a time when we were mired down in our study of the Bible to the point that we couldn’t touch the living Christ there? But, once we have met Him in the gospel, doesn’t He bring the whole of scripture alive for us and set us free in it.