Faith.
What is faith?
Hebrews 11
This chapter speaks about the many warriors for God.
We’ll prolly never be able to do something like that, but realize that God didn’t put in them a vessel of faith, or like an extra compartment to put more faith it.
How much faith must we have?
There’s actually no limit or like an indicator to know how much faith is needed. God doesn’t work that way. Numbers never mattered much to him.
Matthew 17:20
He may be saying that if you have faith as small as a mustard seed.
Yes a mustard seed is super small. It’s a seed! But, has anybody seen a mustard tree? I didn’t wanna show you a picture because, well its all quite exaggerated, and too tranquil for my liking. But its something like the height of this house, in a garden.
Now what does faith imply to us? Ask.
Faith in essence is something that we must seek in ourselves to believe the unseen, to know that God is in control and has the master plan of our lives.
But that’s hard. Who thinks its easy? How are we going to overcome it? Since we have so many leaders and old Christians around lets go one round.
For me yes, there are a few times in my life when I found having faith was a struggle.
Army
A level results
Going through emotional heartbreak
So on and so forth.
But I’ve also seen God breaking through the barriers for me.
I survived army.
Uni now.
Better than ever.
I found what was very important when you are going through a struggle is when you have friends around you, who are not going through the same thing, and not sympathizing, but rather start to pull you up once you’ve fallen down.
James 2:14-26
What I want to leave with us is that having faith alone doesn’t mean anything. If I sit there and tell you I have faith that my singing will be good enough for American Idol, but you do not see me practicing or go for classes, do you think I can make it?
In the same way, we cannot say we have faith and follow up on it. God does not help lazy people, God helps people who helps themselves. And God is smart. If he gives those who do not help themselves, they would simply take God for granted. If you seek after something and prayed about it, and do something about it, the victory when you accomplished it, or when God comes, the measure of faith within you will rise.
What happens when nothing happens and you’ve been trying and trying so hard and so long? Never lose heart. Easy to say, hard to do. That’s where our faith defines us, our tenacity to continue into seemingly pointless stuff, because god will be waiting at the end. God will never allow us to do something that we cannot do. He work within our means. For me, when the going gets tough, I will always run back to the life of Jesus. He had it bad, and nothing I have encountered so far can compare to that. So I give glory to God even in my situation, and recommit my situation to God, and allow Him to continue his work, in His time, and in His plans.
So remember, always have faith in God, and do something about it. :D
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