For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved

— Romans 10:10

Therefore it is of faith, that it may beaccording to grace, for the promise to be sure to all the seed

— Romans 4:16a

Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

— 1 Peter 1:8

That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

— John 8:24

have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life

— 1 John 5:13

Thoughts on Today’s Reading

Grace, mercy and love from Christ to you.

It is helpful to know the Bible doesn’t make a distinction between head faith and hearth faith. In New Testament times, the mind of a person was considered to be a part of the heart, and the heart was the place in which faith occurred for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness. Obviously, someone can intellectually know the facts of the gospel without personally relying on Christ’s finished work for salvation. In that case, such a person is not saved. We should be careful to not measure a person’s sincerity by using terms such as head faith, true faith or saving faith.

Basically, a person either believes or does not believe. Belief in the gospel is personal reliance on Jesus Christ, or who He is, and what He did to save us. If we have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ,,we are saved, and if not, we are still dead in our sins.