It is my firm belief that I go each day walking on nothing but faith. Many people think that faith is a monumental thing, a thing which makes men build great arks and wrents a sea in two. Rather, let’s examine faith as a day to day necessity.
Take a deep breath. Now exhale. Take another. Exhale. What’s to say that the next breath you take would be devoid of oxygen? Did you ever stop to consider that the air around you might, by some strange means, disappear? What is it that makes you keep breathing, despite the fact that you have no sensory way of telling whether or not the air around you is still there? Let’s apply the same example to God. Pray to God about something that is weighing on you. What tells you that God is handling it? What stops you from worrying about it after you have given it to God? If you are like me, you have prayed about something and doubted whether it would be fulfilled. God knows, and God is in charge. He can take care of the things that trouble us if we have faith in him. If you question God’s plan for us, you must also question the air around you. You’d have to hold your breath quite a while in order to find a machine that could tell you the air is still there for you to breath. Isn’t it easier just breathing normally and trusting that we will be better off breathing normally? It’s the same with God. Have faith, and you will be comforted. He has a plan for you; whether or not you choose to follow it is all a matter of faith.
A final thought to close; a man in our community and friend of our church, Richard Lambert (called Ricky), was struck by a metal beam at his job yesterday. They fear he may be paralyzed, and his young wife and daughter of one year (and new baby forthcoming) are going through a difficult period. I ask everyone on the site to pray for Ricky’s recovery and for the well-being of his family as well.
Living, He loved me
Dying, He saved me
Buried, He carried my sins far away
Rising He justified
Freely forever
One day He’s Coming
Oh Glorious Day!
For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ –Hebrews, 3:14