Faith WHEN YOU KNOW HIM YOU WILL TRUST HIM
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Ps. 14:1.
A man came to me one time and said, "I'm through with God. I'm through with faith. I'm through with religion. You can have it."
"What's the matter?" I asked him.
"My wife just died. I read in Scripture that 'Whatsoever you ask, believing, you shall receive.' For two years I have asked and believed that my wife wouldn't die. I told her every day, 'Don't worry--you're not going to die.' And now she's dead. There is no God. Forget it."
This misconception of faith has caused futile effort and discouragement for thousands of people. There are whole churches, whole religions, that are built on this idea of self-generated faith. They believe that if you can think positively enough, it will make things happen.
Faith is nothing more than trusting God. Trusting that He is love, that He wants to bring us the greatest happiness. Jesus is completely trustworthy. If you don't believe that, you don't know Him yet. The person who is not quite sure that he can trust Jesus is the one who has no relationship with Him.
I went into a dry-cleaning shop one morning in a town in the Northwest. There had been an automobile accident the night before, and the mother of four small children had been killed. The lady at the cleaners said, "Some people want to die, and others ought to die, and they don't. Others don't want to die, and shouldn't, and they do. I don't think God knows what He's doing."
I asked, "Do we blame God for this kind of thing?" And she got mad at me and went into the back room and wouldn't talk anymore.
This lady was advertising the fact that she didn't know Jesus. Trust isn't a matter of believing that God will do everything we ask of Him in exactly the way, and at the time, that we expect. He even allows death to come, sometimes at a time that seems wrong to us. But if we know Him, we will not be found turning away from Him when trials come, but rather continuing to walk with Him because we know Him and trust Him.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Ps. 14:1.
A man came to me one time and said, "I'm through with God. I'm through with faith. I'm through with religion. You can have it."
"What's the matter?" I asked him.
"My wife just died. I read in Scripture that 'Whatsoever you ask, believing, you shall receive.' For two years I have asked and believed that my wife wouldn't die. I told her every day, 'Don't worry--you're not going to die.' And now she's dead. There is no God. Forget it."
This misconception of faith has caused futile effort and discouragement for thousands of people. There are whole churches, whole religions, that are built on this idea of self-generated faith. They believe that if you can think positively enough, it will make things happen.
Faith is nothing more than trusting God. Trusting that He is love, that He wants to bring us the greatest happiness. Jesus is completely trustworthy. If you don't believe that, you don't know Him yet. The person who is not quite sure that he can trust Jesus is the one who has no relationship with Him.
I went into a dry-cleaning shop one morning in a town in the Northwest. There had been an automobile accident the night before, and the mother of four small children had been killed. The lady at the cleaners said, "Some people want to die, and others ought to die, and they don't. Others don't want to die, and shouldn't, and they do. I don't think God knows what He's doing."
I asked, "Do we blame God for this kind of thing?" And she got mad at me and went into the back room and wouldn't talk anymore.
This lady was advertising the fact that she didn't know Jesus. Trust isn't a matter of believing that God will do everything we ask of Him in exactly the way, and at the time, that we expect. He even allows death to come, sometimes at a time that seems wrong to us. But if we know Him, we will not be found turning away from Him when trials come, but rather continuing to walk with Him because we know Him and trust Him.
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