Faith is not a wish!

I quote from Mick Turner's article on faith, "Faith isn’t so much about having a big idea. Faith isn’t about how much belief you can muster up. Faith isn’t like spiritual childbirth, where you experience the pain of labor. It is not about trying to create the future by believing it will be so. Faith is not the Christian version of a wish. It is not about speaking something into reality. Faith is different. Faith is about substance. It’s about knowing what has not happened will certainly happen. Not because you will make it happen but because God has promised it will be so. It is a conviction about things unseen. It is the promise of a better world, a better future – a better you".

Led into darkness to find the light!

Exodus 20:21 says "And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was". While the people continued to stand afar off - afraid of God's wrath, Moses drew near unto the thick darkness; he was made to draw near. Moses of himself would not have ventured into the thick darkness if God had not called him, and encouraged him, and, as some of the Rabbins suppose, sent an angel to take him by the hand, and lead him up. So it is with our Christian journey that we are sent into dark situations just to find that we have been called there to discover the light of God's amazing presence.

Faith pleases God.

Someone once said that faith is not the greatest of gifts but rather love. However Faith is the foundation for worship because you give your all to what you cannot see. Faith is why Jesus could have absolutely nothing in the eyes of the world, yet possess everything in the eyes of God. Hebrews 11:6 claims that it is faith that pleases God.

songs from the heart....

Psalm 28:7 says, "The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song". When your heart leaps it is because your have become excited or have received goods news for example. Does the fact that God loves us still cause our hearts to skip a beat? It is interesting to note that some people that I meet seem to sing to themselves when they are at their happiest. When the heart is glad a song gets released. Perhaps we could work on our spiritual singing even outside the church walls.