Tuesday; August 21


          Have you noticed how much we are willing to trust people?  There is a “practical side to human faith”.  We don’t seem to give a second thought to matters of faith when it is convenient for us.  We are more than willing to have faith that the people coming at us at 70 miles an hour in the on-coming lane of traffic will stay on their side of the road.  We have so much faith in the guy who inspected the airplane we are about to board that we are willing to risk our lives by defying gravity at 30,000 feet AND doing so by purchasing a non-refundable ticket!  We trust that the person who is about to fix our food doesn’t have a contagious disease or the one working on our computer isn’t so far in debt that they are about to clone our information and steal us blind!
          Folks, by definition faith doesn’t make sense.  It is illogical, it is unexplainable, it is untestable and cannot be proven.  However, we can’t live without it.   Now, here is the rub, if we are willing to trust people – who are notorious for letting us down – why do we have such a hard time having faith in God?  Why do we doubt the absolute truth of His Word (the Bible) or His ability to sustain us and our world?  We say that we have a hard time with faith – but the reality might be that we have a tough time trusting God. 
           If we are going to live life to its fullest, we are going to have to have faith in a God who we cannot see to do things that we cannot imagine.   When one New Testament writer introduced on of his works he noted, “Paul, a bond-servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago ...” (Titus 1:1-2).  While all life depends on faith, the abundant life is grounded in a faith in God.
          Think About It!

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