"And
now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love." (1 Corinthians 13:13).
One thing you must settle in your
mind as a believer is that faith always works. Our opening scripture outlines
faith, hope and love as three creative and abiding principles of the human
spirit. That means they are not unstable; they’re well founded and will always
produce result; they never fail. Our study today, however, centers on the first
of the three—faith! Jesus said in Matthew 17:20 "…If you have
faith as a grain of a mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove
hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible
unto you."
The Master never lied or exaggerated
in His expressions. He spoke absolute truth. Therefore, if He said this, it
must be true. Some Christians, however, would say they believe the words of
Jesus above and yet cite instances where their faith didn’t work. The truth is,
they really had no faith. It reminds of a similar experience the Lord Jesus had
with His disciples, after the disciples had tried fruitlessly to cast out
devils from a little boy. The father of the boy then besought Jesus saying,
"Master, if you can do anything, please have compassion on us and help
us" (Mark 9:22). Summarily, Jesus cast the devil out of the
little boy, and he was healed.
Afterwards, the disciples came to
Him privately and asked, "Master why couldn’t we cast the devil out?"
(Matthew 17:19). He answered them pointblank: "Because of your
unbelief"; meaning, lack of faith. The disciples must have thought they
had faith and believed they could cast the devil out, otherwise they wouldn’t
have tried. But Jesus made them realize that the reason they couldn’t cast the
devil out was their unbelief.
If you are one of those who still
wonder why your faith isn’t working, you might just be paddling the same boat
of unbelief as the disciples when they tried fruitlessly to cast the devil out
of that little boy. Real faith in God and His Word always works! So get back to
the Word, build your faith strong and put it to work today.
Further Study:
Mark 11:22-23
Andy Agim
Christ Realities
This is a great teaching and reminder that Jesus taught we have the power of the Holy Spirit we only need to practice faith and believe in our Heavenly Father and his word.
ReplyDeleteThat is putting our Faith at work and believing in Jesus Christ as the author and finisher of our Faith. Amen
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