Little Faith – Part 2

 

Michael continues: 
The devil distracts people to focus on their own pain, on how others have offended them and hurt them. The devil makes men and women of this world focus on their victimhood. Victims remain angry and resentful because of the pain and tribulation that afflicts them daily. Jesus said, think about the birds and the flowers ... they don’t toil in the field or spin thread to make their clothes. Yet God takes care of them … they thrive and are arrayed with beauty more splendid than King Solomon in his royal regalia. If God so provides for the fowl of the air and the lilies of the field, will he not much more provide for you, O ye of little faith?

Romans 1:16-17 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”

Consider the Lord who promises to uphold you with the right hand of his mighty power. Will He not provide for your every need? Jeremiah 1:6-9 says, “Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

It’s easy to become overwhelmed by the affairs and the cares of this fallen world. How did Jesus respond? What would Jesus do? According to Hebrews 12, Look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God. His joy was God’s revelation of your redemption and mine. How do we overcome being of “little faith?” Proverbs 3says, trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding… in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Our identity is not in our ancestry, our accomplishments, our physical characteristics, or the accolades and praise of others. God does not see us according to our flesh; our earthly nature. Instead, when we are born-again of God’s Holy Spirit as sons and daughters of God, we are what the Word of God says we are, not what the world says we are. It says, For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but we have received the spirit of adoption, the spirit of sonship, whereby we cry Abba Father, or Daddy, Daddy. If God be for us who can be against us? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or trial or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? Nay, In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

We were the elect of God in God’s foreknowledge. From His eternal perspective, true Believers were seated in heavenly places before the foundation of the world. We have confidence in the day of judgement. For in Christ we shall be judged righteous, not because of who we are but because who he is. For he who knew no sin was made the perfect sacrifice for sin on our behalf that we may be made the righteousness of God In him.

Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” 

When we are born-again of God’s spirit, We are not “O ye of little faith.” We have received the “measure of faith” (Romans 12:3). It is the faith of Jesus Christ. In God’s Holy Spirit, and Christ in you the hope of glory. Therefore, I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that Holy Spirit which he has committed unto me against that day of righteous judgement that according to the faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me, we should ever live in eternity to the praise of the glory of God’s grace!

Your brother in Christ, Michael