Every Christian recipe for living must have an addition of faith. We don't know the amount and are even unsure of the measurement. Some seem to have plenty of faith, while others must have only a little so much do they struggle in their application of it. Love is greatest and hope is essential, along with many other fruits of the Spirit, but all of our recipes need some measure of faith too. Faith produces miracles out of what is merely worldly.
A boy brings a few loaves and fishes to the disciples and faith in Jesus makes it into a meal for 5,000 men plus their wives and families, and leftovers were collected. The worldly and fearful mind said, "A ghost!", but faith in Jesus saw Him walking across the waves. Of course fear can be quite strong to even the faithful mind making it necessary for Jesus to call out that it was in fact Himself. Our faith and our fear are often at war. We are surrounded by the world, but we look to Him in faith. While fear has an easy path to attack us and rises up at the drop of, well, pretty much anything, faith requires effort and concentration. It takes a lifetime of practice and the strength of the Spirit to become steadfast in faith, but anyone in the world can have fear. Fear comes naturally to the fallen; faith must be added to the mix. Faith... Stop!, alright, we get it.
I think that I could go on and on comparing fear and faith, mostly because much of this new life in Christ seems to be that constant fight between them. And that, I think, does not make me one bit strange or unusual among my brothers and sisters in Christ.
Work through a faithful day in Christ the Lord,
Bucky
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