“Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see.
And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.”
Hebrews 11:1, 6 NLT
It is impossible to please God without faith. So, WHAT is faith? Faith is complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
I’m teased often by friends because I am a googler. If I don’t know something… I google it. So, I jokingly call myself the google queen. In the time that we live in, information is so readily accessible, why not google it? If you need information, why not? Why stay unknowledgeable about something when you can easily find the answer with a few taps, clicks and strokes on a keyboard or smart phone? I like to learn, and I love it when the light bulb comes on, so to speak. 😆 I love to find the answers to questions that I have.
But… I am actually acting in faith when I hit that enter button to bring up the information I seek because I am trusting that google is going to bring up the answer to the question that I have. When I push the “on” button on that coffeemaker in the morning (after adding the coffee and water to it), I am trusting that it is going to produce a delicious cup of coffee. When I turn the key in the ignition of my car, I am trusting that my car is going to start and that it is going to take me to my desired destination. If I sit down in a chair, I am trusting that it is going to hold me. When driving down the road, we have an expectation or trust that the car behind us is going to stop when we stop. We have an expectation that things are going to go a certain way. We have an expectation of how things are supposed to go in our day. I’m not sure we realize how much faith or trust that we are putting in things or people that are a part of our normal day. Think of the things we do in a day and how often we couldn’t do what we need to if that person or thing didn’t do what we trusted them to do. We trust that whatever that person or thing’s purpose is, that it will do it’s purpose, that it will do what it says it will do.
Okay. So, where am I going with this? Well, the Bible says that it is impossible to please God without faith. In other words, you have to have faith in God and in His Word in order to please Him. We have to have complete trust and confidence in Him. We have to expect that what God said in His Word will happen. God’s Word says that faith is “being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” We don’t see it YET. If God has said it, it WILL happen. WHY is that so hard for us to believe? We trust in cars to start, chairs to hold our weight, coffeemakers to make us coffee, but struggle to believe that God’s Word is true and will fulfill what it says it will? God’s Word says that it is impossible for God to lie, and that His Word will not return to Him empty or without purpose. It will fulfill what it was sent to fulfill. It will do what He says it will do. Thank You, Jesus! May we choose to walk in complete trust and confidence in God, not letting even the tiniest seed of doubt destroy our expectation in His Word.
Lord, forgive us our unbelief. And help us to grow our faith. Help us to walk in complete trust and confidence in You. We ask these things in Jesus Name. Amen.
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