Faith…how far does yours go? What about mine? How far should our faith in God go? God has a lot of things to say about faith in His word. But what does real faith look like? Should we ask God for things believing He is going to give them to us? Is it O.K. to ask God to move in our lives? Can we even ask God to heal someone? I think we can say an emphatic “yes” to faith in God. We will look at faith through God’s eyes. I think we will understand it better then.
God makes it very plain in Hebrews 11:6. Paul writes, “And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.” God pretty much lays it out for us there. We cannot please God without faith. That’s big. No matter what we try to do, or what great things we might do, it is not possible for God to be happy with us without this attitude of faith. Faith is the building block for all other areas of our spiritual lives. What if we all lived in true faith in God and His awesome power? What would we do? Where might we go?
If we had the faith God wants us to have, what might we ask for? Would it be wild? Would it be big? Or would we rather continue living our lives limiting God and His amazing power? “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20) The life I live, I live by faith. That’s amazing. That’s what God wants for us through Jesus. Too often, we limit God. God will not fit in any building, any country, any city and definitely not any box. We have to let God out of the box! We have to dream big dreams, ask for big things, but we must ask in faith. We can boldly approach God’s throne, and we should as His reverent, but loved children.
James explains how to ask God for things, even big things. “But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.” (James 1:6) That is also very plain. God laid it out simply for us here. When we ask we should expect something to happen. It’s O.K. to ask God for BIG, AMAZING, GOD SIZED things, but we must believe.
God parted the Red Sea, stopped the Jordan River, stopped the sun for Joshua, healed hundreds, (if not thousands), through the hands of the Apostles, and God came down from Heaven to save the world through Jesus. What is it that you think is limiting God today? What is it that you are too scared or think might be too much for God to handle? God will listen, and He just might make something big happen in your life. Maybe we need to God-size our faith.
God Bless!
No comments:
Post a Comment