You can’t serve God without faith
Those who try serve with their hands
While their hearts fight their mouth:
Faith must match our words and walk
Faith makes work acceptable to God
Faith taps into the life in God’s Word
Faith infuses norm with supernatural
If you can’t mix the Word with faith
You can’t connect to receive
Awesome wonders reserved for those
Foolish enough to believe.
Food For Thought: Science demands that we must have sufficient evidence to believe. Our smart ways demand that evidence must fall within the limits of what makes sense to be believable. Fortunately and unfortunately, God goes way out of what makes sense and it doesn’t appear like He cares that He doesn’t make sense because He is making no adjustments to make some sense after all these ages of not making sense. Any wonder the world is so confused: the more you apply sense to God, the less sense it makes. Without definition or location, without beginning or end, God simply is. Is who? God! Is what? God! Simple and short – God is God! As if that isn’t non-sense enough, God chose to create a unique way for everyone who must come to Him, a way that equally makes no sense: believing. He didn’t put Himself somewhere we can get a good view of Him to help us believe. Instead, He chose to plaster His fingerprints all over creation so that in seeing those, we may know that He is. Rather than take a shape we can relate with, He chose to encapsulate Himself in His Word, passed around from generation to generation; ancient and yet unchanging in meeting the needs of past, present, and future. Faith in God doesn’t make sense yet from generation to generation, it has proven true for those who have applied themselves to it. You can’t walk with Him except you believe – you can’t win with God except you persist in believing. Not just believing for the sake of belief, or believing in anything about Him or in anything that He did or does: believing that God was, that God is, and that God always will be: God.
Scripture: For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1: 18.
Prayer: Dear Lord, may I not lose Your sure promises to unbelief: I have nothing to lose by believing, yet may I believe because You are worthy of my trust, amen.