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Hebrews 11:1
“Now faith is being sure of
what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
How can we keep our faith from being a weak and fruitless thing? How can we not be foolish little men and women groveling in the dark shadows of overeager egos.
Well, first we must do more than just
pray. We must believe in our own
prayers.
Would you like for me to tell you what hell is like? Now there is a first
class challenge, but let me give it a try anyway. Well, I think actually I can describe it quite
well. Try being an aetheist. Try looking at life’s beginning, middle and
end and coming up with a blank.
Try passing a cemetery, realizing that one day your own body
will lie there and then think to yourself, immortality is only a dream.” Try substituting goodies from the devil
rather than blessings from the Savior.
I like the way the blind man who had
been healed by Jesus reacted to the true story, which was his life. You might say he was caught between the rock
and the hard place, being confronted by the leaders of the synagogue as to the
character of this man named Jesus who had just given Him back his sight. Finally, exasperated with their questions, he
simply confronted them back, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know, but
one thing I do know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.”
Einstein
put it well when he said, “Truth is what stands the test of experience.” So, yes, I have read the Bible and soul to
soul discussed Jesus with other Christians.
I have attended conferences and listened to inspirational
addresses. I have been all the right
places and listened to all the right things.
But bottom line, what really counts is that I have experienced God. I have felt the power of the Holy
Spirit. I know my Savior lives and that
this communion table is a place of awe.
“Whereas I was blind, now I see.”
Well,
how is your spiritual eyesight? With
20/20 sacred vision do you see God as wise and personal? A god who knows what to do, and how and when? Do you believe that your wisdom is proof of
His greater wisdom, your personality proof that His attachment to man is
equally as personal? Do you believe that
whatever you see, feel, touch and ask questions about, He both made and understands? Are you speechless before the fact that the
greatest gift you have and will ever have is a gift not made with hands but
fashioned by your heavenly Father in His heavenly workshop?
Once, there was a little boy who
(was crippled by) polio and had very low self-esteem. Each time his mother
would leave him at Sunday School he would ask if he could wear her locket. “She thought I liked the locket,” he would
often relate in later years. “It wasn’t that. I really didn’t like the locket, but I felt I
wasn’t worth coming back for and I knew she would come back for the
locket.”
There
are more people than I like to remember who have told me they don’t feel worthy
to come to church. I reprimand them,
reminding them that they are because the Lord loves them. Often they continue to argue that they are
not – they are sinners. (Of course, they
are sinners – we all are sinners, only Jesus was perfect. That’s why we need God’s forgiveness.) But some never get the message.
Yes, we live in a sick world with
a lot of sick people chasing dross and calling it golden. And yes, Christianity is the medicine to save
it from its delirium.
Yes, science can shoot a satellite into space, but it cannot
shape a character. Psychiatry can free a
man from his neurosis, but only God can free a man from his sin. A good singer can hold an audience in the
palm of his or her hand, but only God can grasp their souls.
BUT DO NOT FORGET.. God loves you and you don’t have to wear a special
locket around your neck or jump through some special hoops. All you have to do is believe and accept His
love and forgiveness for being paralyzed sometimes when it come to doing His
will and following His commandments.
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