BELIEVE GOD CAN....AND WILL

For certain, walking in the spirit zone is tedious.  Because God calls us (II Cor. 5:7) to walk by faith and not by sight, we can be assured that the visibles will do their best to choke out the invisibles.  Our goals to walk by faith in the unseen is forever tripped up by the distractions of what we see.

It is for this reason that masses of believers don't pray.  Saying words into the ears of an invisible God is about one of the strangest senses a fleshly body can feel.  Speaking words into the air and believing they resonate with Some Being out there? Absurd...unless you really do believe.

Belief is nearly a contradiction to man's most basic anchor.

We should not be surprised, therefore, at the great strain connected to believing God. Our addictions to walking among the tangibles, the measureables, and the handleables seem to undermine the purity of faith before we ever head out the door of a morning.

Curious followers of Jesus posed the big question, What shall we do that we may work the works of God?  What response did they anticipate?  Pray longer?  Track the needs of the poor?  Go to church regularly?  None of these.

This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.

Jesus' comment seems so basic that still today the religious world takes constant effort to improve such a fundamental sentence.  Surely there must be more.  However, the religious conglomerate is suffering from lack of efficiency and stability today due to bypassing his simple statement.

There are many things we state that we believe.  As a matter of fact, unity seems to teeter if we don't adhere completely to the rationale of others.  But believing in Jesus; the one whom God sent?  This is easily dismissed in the name of there is much work to do.

There it is.  The kindergarten version of simply believing Jesus tends to be aborted by the time we get to first grade.  Yet, this is our assigned work order.  So why do we tend to rush to a place to serve or a need to be met by robust attention rather than focus on the Son of God?

The flesh seems to crave verification.  Am I doing well?  Do you see me doing well? Will I make a difference?  To believe in Jesus seems/feels like.....vague vagueness?

It takes spirit muscle to believe in Jesus.  Concentration.  Conviction.  Determination. These are in the mix.  Believing Jesus isn't a good mood.  It is a major work.  No one does this haphazardly.  No one possesses a passion for him simply by occasional tossing a thought his direction.

When we do the work of believing him, we are altering the course of life.  We work to believe he knows the how, the what, the when, the where, and the why of any given need.  We believe in his timing; not ours.  We are sure of his ability; not ours.

When we watch him, we make powerful progress because we know that he isn't doing anything until he sees Father doing it.  Synchronization and harmony will never be more basic than when we shed the many church dynamics that distract in order to focus upon the one who runs the show.