[Forrest]

I've been a born-again believer now for 29 years. But it has been about the last seven years, or so, that God has used a severe (disabling) personal trial in my life to teach the life changing truth of the all-sufficiency of Jesus Christ. Simple truth, but deeply profound. Like all truth, He opens our spiritual eyes of understanding and perception in His good time.

By His Spirit, through His Word, He is teaching me the glorious truth that Jesus Christ is really the only Person Who can live the genuine Christian life. "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20).

"...by the faith of the Son of God...."

My understanding is that the faith I now have is not from my own commitments, disciplines, resolve, or attitudes. It's not something I do or even purpose to do. It's Christ in me, equipping me and enabling me (through His Word and by His Spirit) to trust Him with my whole heart. And now, I should simply be:"Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God" (Hebrews 12:2). He is the beginning and the end...and everything in between.

What is your understanding of "...by the faith of the Son of God...."?