If you get an opportunity, please pray for my sister-in-law. She is getting a new knee today.
If the Bible reveals God’s will for me to do something, then I need to get off my backside and do it. If He’s already said it, he will not likely show me a sign or write it in the sky.
“Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”
John 4:48 NIV
Under faith
I often fail to act on my faith in Jesus because I over-think and under-faith the thing about which the Holy Spirit is speaking to me. The well-known Christian author, Oswald Chambers, said:
“Waiting on God to act is fleshly unbelief. It means that I have no faith in Him. I wait for Him to do something in me so I may trust in that. But God won’t do it, because that is not the basis of the God-and-man relationship. Man must go beyond the physical body and feelings in his covenant with God, just as God goes beyond Himself in reaching out with his covenant to man. It is a question of faith – a very rare thing.”
Mr. Chambers makes an unusual statement in this quotation. He says, “I wait for Him to do something in me so I may trust in that.” Ouch.
A Rare Thing
I know there have been times in my life when I was guilty of seeking to put my faith in an act of God instead of God. It’s the Gideon’s sheepskin trap (Judges 6:37–39). Gideon lived long before Jesus paid the ultimate price that allows God to live in us. Gideon needed to see God work, but as Christians, we already have experienced God work. Let’s not forget what it means for Jesus to be our “Lord.” We need nothing more.
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