Faith, as long as we have researched it, remains cutting edge mystery.
We pushed it, pulled it, begged it, and promoted it. Still it eludes and evades. It seems....well....it surely seems to be an authentic dimension of God. Therefore, note that this will be a huge challenge before our eager hearts.
Man is always in a pinch and faith is always God's call. I wonder, though, if we have taken a higher divine element of the spiritual and reframed it to lower human management in the flesh. Faith like Abraham's of not knowing where he was going can be reviewed goalless as well as irresponsible.
Thus, we bring goals and responsibilities to the table with hopes of being in sync with the Vibrant Lord who will get bigger things done for us than if our going had been without Him. The tendency, from man's quarters, can be that God will align with our vision and support our mission. The reverse is significant for life effectiveness.
This differs from man's abiding by His calling.
Calling. Now there's a Bible term for us. When we insist that we do Bible things Bible ways, I don't recall this word being bandied. No. It wouldn't fit our obsession with knowing where we are going.
Faith is a tremendous challenge before us. It is the assurance of things hope for, the conviction of things not seen. Faith moves forward without verification that it knows what it's talking about. Believing is movement without proof.
When we develop a sense--and faith is surely a sense--aligned with the assurance and conviction mentioned above, we are in a new world zone. Faith isn't regulated by a clock, a paycheck, or a formula. It functions only by the hands of Almighty.
When man moves by faith he steps out of explanational safety and into wild mystery.
We want things. We want children to know God. We want churches to thrive. We want very noble things. The good news is that God wants these for us. Our challenge is that much of the time, if not attentive, we will try to provide a new kind of world operation by forcing it into an old world form.
Faith is a new kind of world zone. May we have the interest, the awareness, and the courage to enter in.
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