I just wish I knew what that was. If everyone who prayed for healing was immediately and completely healed, would that be faith or just a benefit? If everyone who fell into a spot of financial difficulty could pray and have a cash delivery show up at the front door, would that be faith or might we then look at God as only a sort of heavenly ATM? One way to start through the dark valley of any difficulty, challenge, or tribulation is to trust that God knows the best way through. Period.
That best way might involve loss on our part. We don't much like it to be that way. It might be kind of nice to have the solution to our current dilemma lie in a quick shower of riches or maybe one of those miraculous healings we've read about. The blind beggar with his restored sight soon had to find employment. The healed paralytic probably met some tough expectations from those who had formerly supported him. And of course, poor Lazarus had to face death that one more time; talk about someone hoping for the Rapture!
Trusting in God's best way requires a whole lot of faith in Him, or maybe we have that just a bit wrong. Trusting involves not a great amount of faith in God, but just faith in our great God. We only have what faith we are given; how we use it is why God runs us through the testing gauntlet. It was a national disgrace that Jesus found the most faith in a Roman centurion. It seems that few among God's chosen people were using their faith well in Jesus' day.
Want more faith? Use the faith we have in Christ Jesus right now!
Bucky
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