Quite often this class of people make use of their faith as a means to attain some worldly object. In proportion as they proclaim their faith they live unworthy of it. The worst enemy of the true faith is that person who is known to profess it, but whose conduct belies it. Many a seeker after truth has been repelled from investigating the true faith because some of its adherents have given him a false notion of it by their lives. Faith, unless lived up to, will not avail unto salvation.
Faith is all important, but an active faith which manifests itself in right living.
For, after all, faith is not the end but only the means. We must do our part. It is no less than companionship with God Himself, a share in His immortal blessedness. But they that shall be accounted worthy shall die no more, for they shall be as the angels and are the children of God. Sometimes one hears a person say that it is undesirable to have the faith because it imposes so many obligations.