Our words are equivalent to our deeds. So faith without deeds is dead. This is a well known formula. But what is a basis for it? What is a basis for our faith? Can we grow in it on our own? Do we have a free will to do anything, including any improvement in our faith?

Millions of people all over the world and in all the History read the same Word and define it in so many different and sometimes opposite directions. Is that normal? Yes, it is. People carry a huge variety of DIFFERENT functions following the same manual. In some sophisticated way the Bible is written and freely accessible to all mankind, but speaks to every person in a specific and unique way. It forms individuals and groups, societies and nations, united and divided, but none of it is an accident - they all are details of preformed design. 

Christianity still does not belong to traditional mankind and was founded not on a religious principles and traditions, or rules. It is strictly a divine providence of God, his pre-selection and management of chosen ones. No one can come to Christ unless the Father draw him. They are not necessary known to the world, and, being in fact the last ones, can hardly be recognized among men. Unnoticeable like salt and misappreciated like light, invisible like air and life bearing like water, they are always perfect tools of God. Do tools have a free will? Do they make choices? Do they decide what to make or what not to? Compare to the rest of the world, they definitely have much more freedom and power, but at the same time they possess the most perfect submission to the Master.

Ultimately we can say: if men have a free will, then God doesn't. If we have a true faith as a gift from the Lord, we have only one way to grow in faith - humble repentance and full uncompromised submission to His will. Without Him we cannot live a single fraction of moment, and all we do was well preordained in the beginning of time to the last detail. Existing in time we ignore the past and have no clue of future, we go blind in present and die in unknown. And we still claim to have a free will. Citation of Bible verses became almost the only authorised basis for religious opinion. It's like God left us some kind of a will before He passed away. But He is a living One. Living now and in eternity. His existence is out of time and any form. Scripture is good for all kind of spiritual guidance but it is not a source of faith. If one have no communication with the Creator, would the knowledge of the Bible make him a person of faith? If one does not know God he is most likely blind leader of blind. Speaking of God does not make a person devoted and authorised. All religions are based on two world's factors: money and power. But faith stands alone. The only form of worship God does accept is worship in spirit and in truth. And that's where true Christians are. Who can define a spirit, or who can declare the truth? It seems like so many claim they can, but the trick is that truth and spirit are beyond the world and are not exposed to the mind of the world. So how can they be even claimed? The only way to declare it is to declare it to God, and the only way to claim it is to claim it from Him. So test yourself: if you have been called and have faith, have it in a deep fear of God and it will be increased, but if you don't have it, then be careful to claim anything, for even what you have might be taken away from you.