Faith And The Promises
Without faith it is impossible to please Him. (Hebrews 11:6)
God can do anything, but He does not, without those who believe.
What is faith? It is not an extra brain lobe or a piece stuck on our soul. We choose to believe. Faith is an attitude. Faith is the only basis possible for any workable relationship. It seems to me that faith in God is not only good, but it is the only decent thing to do. It is ridiculous to expect dealings with God on any other terms. How else can an invisible God relate to us, now or during the unknown future? If we cannot go that far, what are we worth? If we cannot trust the Almighty of all beings, who do we think we are? It is the least God can expect: "Without faith it is impossible to please Him." If anybody says, "I'm not a great believer" that is too bad, because God is not pleased with them! Would they - or anybody else - be pleased if somebody did not trust them?
Faith is not certainty; it is a personal issue. Somebody may have proved himself up to now: but the future holds only personal assurances. We trust them because we know them. If we thought that they would change, we would not trust them. We read in the Bible who God is. We may have proved Him for ourselves up to this moment: but for the future, we can do no other but trust. No faith is needed to believe two plus two make four: but life is a degree more complicated. Circumstances change like the ocean. The vastness of things affects the future. Obviously, what God might do is affected; He does not cut across events as if they did not occur. He may work no magic, turn no pumpkins into golden coaches. But He is all-wise and all-powerful: so much so that we have to leave things to Him to sort out; for we may understand no more of what He is doing, than we would understand the chaos of a shipyard building a fifty thousand-ton luxury liner. We look to Him; and that is something God takes into account. He made the world that way. Prayer and faith will enable Him to do what He could not otherwise do. No doubt it is true that God can do anything: but He does not, without those who believe.
That is His planned providence, His promise to you.
-Reinhard Bonnke (www.cfan.org)
Daddy, i will trust.
posted by huanglishan @ 7:51 AM
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