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A Morning View By the Patio

Have you ever questioned your faith? 
You know that you believe, but wonder if you really believe? 
Everyone sees something within you that you cannot see and perhaps even experience? 

Faith in the middle of our lives is so vital yet often so difficult to practice. Faith also means trusting in something which doesn't always mean it makes sense in our logical intellectual world. It is also a vital part of pleasing God. Faith lets God know that we understand that we do not always understand. Faith is also easy to talk about and so difficult to do. 

“And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.”    - Hebrews 11:6 NLT 


The next scripture seems to show how acting out a simple faith can be easy to do. What we fail to remember is that an unclean woman touching the robe of Jesus could have actually resulted in her death. It was forbidden for a woman to touch a man and if you add in the fact that she was unclean it was an abomination. Yet her faith made her whole. 


I am not sure I have such faith. Yes I have a faith in Jesus Christ, but do I really have faith? If so why do I not always live like it?


"A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding, and she could find no cure. Coming up behind Jesus, she touched the fringe of his robe. Immediately, the bleeding stopped.


“Who touched me?” Jesus asked.

Everyone denied it, and Peter said, “Master, this whole crowd is pressing up against you.”


But Jesus said, “Someone deliberately touched me, for I felt healing power go out from me.” When the woman realized that she could not stay hidden, she began to tremble and fell to her knees in front of him. The whole crowd heard her explain why she had touched him and that she had been immediately healed. “Daughter,” he said to her, “your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”   - Luke 8::43-48 NLT 


Do you really have enough faith in Christ to practice it or do you just profess faith in Christ? I know I struggle, how about you?


Peace,

PB

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