A Faith That Has Not Gone Quiet
Christ's question about the end of the age is worth asking about your own life
There is a question Jesus asked that was not primarily about the world. It was about the church.
“When the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8, NKJV).
Read that question slowly. It is not asking whether religious activity will still exist. It is not asking whether buildings will still be standing with services held inside them. It is asking something far more specific and far more searching: will He find faith. Living, active, genuine trust, the kind that produces a life actually shaped by it, rather than the residue of faith that has gone quiet while the surrounding religious structures remain intact.
This question has weight because the answer is not assumed to be obviously yes. Jesus asked it as a genuine question, which means the possibility of the answer being no, or being yes for fewer people than expected, was real enough to be worth raising. And the reason it was worth raising is the same reason it is worth raising for you, personally, today: faith can quietly drain out of a life while every external indicator continues to suggest it is present.
What does it mean for faith to go quiet without anyone, including the person carrying it, fully noticing? It means the daily, active dependence on Christ that genuine faith requires has been replaced by a habitual religious identity that runs on its own momentum. The prayers continue, but they have become routine rather than relational. The Scripture reading continues, but it has become informational rather than transformational. The profession continues, but the active trust that should be animating it has quietly become passive assumption.
This is precisely the condition that requires earnest, deliberate effort to correct. Not earnest effort in the sense of working harder to earn something, but earnest effort in the sense of genuinely engaging with what faith actually requires rather than coasting on the appearance of it. “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves” (2 Corinthians 13:5, NKJV). The examining is active. It requires actually looking, honestly, at the current state of the connection rather than assuming the connection is healthy because it once was.
Part of what genuine faith requires is dealing honestly with what has accumulated in its absence. “Therefore, since we also are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us” (Hebrews 12:1, NKJV). Laying aside weights is not a one-time event at the beginning of the Christian life. It is an ongoing practice, because weight accumulates continuously in a world that is constantly offering things to carry that were never meant to be carried.
This is what breaking off sin by righteousness actually involves. Not a single dramatic renunciation, but the ongoing, active discipline of identifying what has accumulated and setting it down, repeatedly, as a continuous practice of a living faith. The alternative is the slow accumulation that eventually produces a life carrying so much weight that the running has effectively stopped, even though the runner has not formally quit the race.
What would it mean to genuinely examine, this week, whether the faith you are carrying is the living kind Jesus described, or the quiet kind that has been running on residual momentum for longer than you have been willing to admit?
The honest answer to that question is the necessary first step toward forming, or re-forming, the kind of union with Christ that the rest of this week’s reading is going to describe. And that union, as you are about to discover, costs something specific.
A faith that has gone quiet does not announce its condition. It simply continues, unremarkably, producing the outward forms of devotion while the inward fire that once animated those forms has dimmed to embers. The recovery does not begin with more activity layered on top of the existing routine. It begins with the honest willingness to ask the question Christ asked, applied to the only life you actually have authority over: yours.
There is a kind of mercy in this question that is easy to miss because it sounds so confrontational on first reading. A question that exposes a condition is also a question that opens the door to addressing it. The believer whose faith has gone quiet but who never asks the question remains in the condition indefinitely, protected from the discomfort of honest examination but also cut off from the recovery that honest examination makes possible. The believer willing to ask, even when the honest answer is uncomfortable, has already taken the first genuine step back toward the living faith the question is describing, and that step is itself an act of the very faith being sought.
Focus Verse: “Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” — Luke 18:8 (NKJV)
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