FAITH DON''T COME IN A BUSHEL BASKET
Galatians 3:6
Just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?
All over Michigan this week there are over 500,000 deer hunters in the woods. My family got up at 4:00 the last two mornings. They ate, got dressed and drove to their hunting stands… all an hour before daylight. Then most of them sat 11+ hours until it was totally dark again. All this because they have hope of seeing and harvesting a mature whitetail buck. We all have faith that those bucks are there and a hope that we will get one of them.
In the verse above, these words, “He believed God,” Paul shows us that faith in God is the highest worship, the greatest allegiance, the ultimate obedience, and the most pleasing sacrifice. If you have faith to truly believe God has your best in mind, you will discover that faith is all-powerful. Its power is immeasurable and infinite. Faith gives God the greatest honor anyone can give him. Giving God honor is believing him, considering him truthful, wise, righteous, merciful, and all-powerful. In short, it’s recognizing that he is the Creator and Giver of every good thing. Reason doesn’t do this; only faith does.
In the Lynn Austin novel, "Candle in the Darkness" Lynn writes,
"Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands."
Faith makes God real to us. Where there is no faith, God has no majesty or divine power. The life without faith can not draw on the power of God. True faith in God, is giving up of our personal desires... and knowing that His ways are best. When we have that kind of faith we are showing the greatest wisdom, the highest justice, and the best worship, while offering the most pleasing sacrifice.
"Faith don't come in a bushel basket"... But it can... once we’ve learned to trust Him with every part of our lives
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