We live in a social setting where danger lurks. The target is faith. The danger is that risking conviction has been tossed out while indifference escalates. Faith (that Jesus died to promote) is not a sweet-Jesus feeling which offers a some sort of Sunday morning soothe. It is a new theme, a new possibility, an entirely new sort of existence day by learning/growing day.
Why is there a battle going on? Because faith's value is more precious than gold. That we believe into the invisible as being genuinely real is under continual siege. Faith blows the cover to legalistic control and the law-keepers despise it. Faith transforms the broken and those who fear change detest it. Faith turns the tables on reality making the seen the temporary and the unseen the eternal. The hesitant resist it.
Be encouraged, there is a present war embroiling over your potential faith. To believe what can become that isn't yet is absurd to the controller and fresh air to the dreamer. The latter treasures our Creative God while the former is devoted to preserving how we got here. It isn't that many things in our past were not awesome. It's that in their awesomeness they were setting the stage for the next faith thriller/adventure.
Our past is full of marvel and wonder. Be not robbed of its thrill. Yet, its success delivered us to this point to keep the trust in His provision flowing. We are to appreciate the bravery of those in our history with the awareness that it is now our turn to step up in equal courage to offer the next generation a current, vibrant, and effective faith.
Faith isn't easy. Its character can be easily kidnapped and bound so that the capturers may peddle a pseudo-faith that offers the activities; but not the personally engaging fruit of believing, dying, and arising. There is a stern battle for faith going on....now. The warheads are not frightening. Instead they are socially acceptable. Indifference is in escalation mode. Thus, the needed alert.
Faith wasn't for an hour yesterday (Sunday). It was for then and it is for your waking moments now. Win the war. Step up for service and step out with belief; a faith that thinks that what good isn't yet can still become.
Win. The. War.
Believe.
Big.
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