What is faith?
Faith and trust go hand in hand.
Faith is belief without reservation.
Faith is belief without the need for
additional analysis.
When I sit down in a chair, I do not
analyze it first to determine if it will support me.
I do not consider its age, its
materials or its quality of construction.
I simply sit in the chair fully
trusting it to support me.
When I drive across a bridge I do not
perform any complex mathematics.
I do not consider the design or the
engineering that went into its construction.
I do not estimate the weight of my
vehicle and multiply that weight by the number of vehicles that
happen to be on it.
I simply drive across it fully trusting
it to be able to support whatever load it happens to bear.
In that sense, faith and trust are
remarkably similar.
Once when Jesus entered Capernaum, a
centurion came asking for his help.
He told Jesus about his servant who was
paralyzed and in anguish.
Jesus offered to go to the servant and
heal him.
The centurion replied that he was
unworthy to have Jesus come to his home and added the following.
Matthew 8:9 (NET) - “For I too
am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to this one
'Go' and he goes, and to another 'Come' and he comes, and to my slave
'Do this' and he does it.
Scripture tells us
that Jesus was amazed.
Matthew 8:10 (NET) – When Jesus
heard this He was amazed and said to those that followed Him, “I
tell you the truth, I have not found such faith in anyone in Israel!”
The centurion did not ask Jesus to go to the servant.
He did not ask Jesus to lay His hands upon the servant.
He simply believed that Jesus had the authority to do it from where
He was.
With that, the servant was healed.
Matthew 8:13 (NET) – Then Jesus
said to the centurion, “Go; just as you believed, it will be done
for you.” And the servant was healed at that hour.
Scripture tells us many things about Jesus.
We do not need to analyze them.
All we need do is believe.
Romans 10:9 (NET) – because if
you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your
heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Things often become complicated when we choose to make them that way.
There is no need to make faith complicated.
Trust is a great place to start,
Blessings,
Jim Pokorny
The Other Brother Jim
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