Is Your Faith Real? (Part 2)

Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.  C.S. Lewis, from "A Grief Observed"


What is God telling you to do in your life that may be dangerous?  Something that if you did it you could suffer a real loss?


God warned Adam and Eve of impending death if they ate from the tree of knowledge.
God told Noah to build an ark and thus save his family from the destruction of the world by water. 


Adam and Eve risk death in disobeying God.  Real death.
Noah is putting the life of his family on the line by trusting God and building the ark.


We keep seeing this in scripture, but sometimes we don't see it in our own lives.


God told Abram to leave his home and family, what he knew, and to go to a land God would show him.  An unknown land among an unknown people.


Later God makes Abram an amazing promise: He at age 100, and his 90 year old barren wife will have a son.


Over and over in the Bible God promises things that only He can do, and commands his people to take risks that can mean their life or death.


Over and over again in our lives, if we would but see it, God does the same with us. 


Where you work and live, if you are trusting God, are decisions that determine the course of your life. At times you sense God leading you into the unknown.  In these times I encourage you to remember:  The unknown is normal for God's people. 


We are those who "walk by faith and not by sight."  Our faith is not "blind" in the sense that we act unwisely.  The wisest thing to do is to trust God, even if you can't see more than a step ahead.


Is your faith real?  You can know in two ways:
1. Is your faith in Jesus a matter of life and death for you?
2. Does your faith involve a very real risk in your life?


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