Believe

Believing...

It is so simple yet it is so difficult...

Why is it so difficult?

Why do we question it?

Sunday mornings we sit in Church and it is so easy for us to say, "Yes I believe, I want to go serve the Lord with everything" but yet on Tuesday morning when the hammer hits the thumb we flunk and fall back into our old ways.

Hey, I am with you I know what it's like to battle with this, week after week, after week to be honest I still struggle with it. The simple yet powerful word believe could so dramatically change us  that we would hardly recognize the old you!

Oh I pray, that I that we could allow this simple seven letter word to capture our whole being to the point where we would not live without it. If we were to try to live without it, it would destroy our whole being.

Jesus says, "I want to see you believe!" The disciples wanted it, they said "Lord, increase our faith." Luke 17:5. Jesus  responds so beautifully, "If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to the mulberry tree be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea and it would obey you." Luke 17:6NKJV. 

Do you have any idea how tiny mustard seed is? If we could only put our belief in action do you have any idea how much could be done for the honor and glory of Jesus Christ? I do believe it will blow our minds. 

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, 'The just shall live by faith' " Romans 1:16-17NKJV

The Bible continues on and so does life. God inspired Paul to write these words in Romans as a commandment to His Follower, His Believers, "The just (the one's who follow Me) shall live by faith." If you are going to be a Follower of Jesus Christ you have to live by Faith, there isn't an option.

Ok, So I am thinking right now that that's pretty radical of me, to think I should have faith in such a way that I could look at something in my life and say "be removed" and it would be gone. It blows my mind. Now God is saying "Live like that everyday." Not just Sunday, not just Saturday, not just Tuesday... but every single day of the week.

Oh... Ouch... Scary.... Awesome... Isn't God simply amazing....

"Faith is to Believe what we do not see, and the reward of this Faith is to see what we Believe." -Augustine

Jesus is asking you, "Do you believe, I am able to do this? (Matthew 9:28) and He is looking for a response from you and from me. 

"I am surprised at how calm I am. But then, if God has decided that my time for serving Him with the Motilones is over, who am I to question Him? And so I wait for the explosion that will end my life..." Bruce Olson, from "Bruchko and the Motilone Miracle"

Oh to have faith like that, to only Believe with that mustard size of faith. Jesus says, "Do not be afraid, only believe." Mark 5:36...

I pray that each one of us would find ourselves with the response of the father, where his son had a mute spirit(Mark 9) when Jesus asked Him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." Immediately, the father of the child cried out and said with tears, 'Lord I believe; help my unbelief!' " Mark 9:23-24

Only Believe