Faith

I've been reading, hearing, and thinking a lot about faith. Hebrews 11 is known as the faith chapter. Hebrews 11:1 says, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen". Faith has substance. Faith IS substance. It is something real and concrete. It is the evidence of what we hope for. Faith is the reality of our hope. And everybody has a measure of faith. Believers and non-believers alike.

There's a story in the Old Testament that takes place after Abram and his nephew, Lot, go their separate ways. God tells Abram to "Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west. All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever...." God was, in essence, telling Abram, "If you can see it, I will give it to you and your offspring to have as an inheritance." God hadn't yet given it to Abram, but Abram knew that God's word and his promises were true. Abram may not have had possession of that promise right at that particular time and place, but he knew he was going to have possession of it because God told him he was going to have possession of it.

The same is true with our faith walk. God's Word makes promises and declarations to us that are true. When we see those promises and declarations that God makes or when God shows us things -- reveals things to us -- we can latch on to those things and believe God for those things because God is not a liar. He is faithful and true to His Word. His promises are "yes" and "amen". They are born out of His great love for us and out of what Christ did for us on the cross. He gives them to us out of a love relationship with us.

I feel like a little child who wants more...More of my Father, more faith, more of what the Word says...but, I also want to grow and be able to give away.