This week has been one of those weeks were God has been trying to teach me a lesson about faith, and he has shown me several signs to prove his lesson on faith. Maybe you may look at them as just regular events, but I felt a deeper lesson being taught within those experiences.
Earlier this week, I have been pondering on the topic especially since I've been looking at the stories of Abraham and Moses. I decided to go to a bible study. I was not comfortable with the topic being discussed neither did I find the person leading the study credible. So i walked out of that study about to head home, but someone told me to stick around and I did. The lesson I walked into was one about faith. The lesson that was taught spoke to me seriously, and I'm not sure if that young man leading the study was aware of how much what he spoke meant to me.
This same week I had an interesting experience on a journey out of town. On my way back home, on a route I don't really know, I got lost. I didn't have directions neither was my GPS working, no phone signal, no one accompanying me on my journey. I was lost in the middle of nowhere in the dead of the night, only dark roads surrounded by trees were my only trailing marks. I kept driving, not sure of where I was going but hoping in my heart that somewhere I would see some sign that would give me some confirmation that I was heading in a homeward direction. Finally after two hours of getting lost in the middle of nowhere and driving what seemed like the same tour of trees, closed down buildings and long roads, I finally saw a sign. As you can imagine, I was very relieved.
I reached an epiphany today finally going through an old bible study note I made and reading this "Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. " James 1:2-3
Faith is an incredible and almost illogical concept to understand and follow. The concept of not seeing but believing is one that doesn't make sense in a world where we plan first and act on that plan. What of if there's no plan? What of the many people who had a plan before them and watched those plans go down the drain?
Take a look at the stories you are familiar with, Abraham was told to go up and sacrifice his only son. He did as God instructed and we know how that story goes. Moses stretched his rod over the red sea under God's instruction and he divided it. Everyone who came to Jesus for healing first of all believed that Jesus would heal them, and all who believed were healed.
Faith is a truly powerful thing. It's a hard concept to grasp and act on, but it really is.
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