THE WEIGHT OF FAITH

I sit at this computer with a blank stare this morning.  I'm just telling you how it is.  I don't want to type.  I don't want to think.  I don't want to be in the office today.

The reason is that I am quite burdened over our role as believers.

Faith isn't for the weak nor the lazy.  Faith is basically a church word (Bible word) that has suffered disrespect over time.  It has been reduced to formulas or steps or definitions.  Faith is the break-out word from the imprisonment of being a normally restricted earth-centered person.

I'm overwhelmed with the deep desire to help the one or the masses shift to the faith terrain.  Today it feels so heavy as there is such grave need for mankind to be lifted into the realm of our active God.

Is faith--seeing the unseen with certain conviction--being reduced to we really like our church mentality of belonging for gatherings with a touch of mission trip?  Are we training our old and our young to possess a sight into the mysterious power-plant of our Lord?  Or, do we high-tail it at moment's notice of struggle over matters that don't go our way?

Faith is weighty.  It believes in what isn't yet; but can be.  It moves mountainous problems and treads slushy obstacles.  Faith isn't church lingo.  It is the dynamic of one who knows God knows....and wills...and does.

We as church members and a few of us leaders must not let the calendar be found to have eaten our days and nights with inactivity of spirit faith.  Believing is man's push back against a rude and rugged world.  Naming an address of a building where we sit in a pew on Sundays is not faith.  That is routine; valuable routine...but to many it may possibly be their meager self-verification that they believe in God without a sense of kingdom engagement and service.

We face pressures and battles day in and day out.  These are both heavy as well as important.  We cannot survive with the mentality that an hour of sit-down on Sunday morning equals the totality of faithfulness.  The world will die alongside of us.

We must press our faith against bully obstacles.  We shall believe, when few would, that God can deliver goodness into the corridors of darkness.  We shall push back by thinking that God can make something out of nothing.  Our faith will go so far to watch for life to arise from the dead.

Whether your family, your work, or your church; with all of the arrows pointed against any of them, dare to lean into the realm of faith.  It carries an invisible and immeasurable weight which is ours for...the believing.