The problems that we all face can loom as large, dark clouds in our lives. Yet God holds the weighty issues of life in the palm of His hand.
In the second letter that Paul wrote to his spiritual son, he reminded him that “God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline” (2 Tim 1:7). As a nation we are facing difficulties that we have not experienced for many years. In the natural we may be facing some great difficulties, but in the spiritual, we are in a season where God is asking us to step up and not step back. As Christians, we must stop looking at what can be seen and start looking at what cannot be seen. What is it that God is speaking to us today? What does the Word of God say concerning who we are in Jesus Christ and the life He has called us to live?
As Pastor Clyde Oliver declared recently:
“Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible.”
Living faith comes out of a relationship with Jesus Christ. Faith sees, believes and receives. As we read and study God’s Word it builds up our faith and our confidence in God’s ability to solve every problem we face. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of Christ” (Rom 10:17).
As Pastor Tim Franklin said recently:
“The Word works for those who work the Word.”
In Hebrews it says that, “the Word of God is living and active…” (Heb 4:12). Jesus Christ is the living Word of God and He indeed holds the weighty issues of life in the palm of His hand. What beams so large to us is small to Him!
Have you taken your problems to God and found comfort? What part has faith and God’s Word played in facing the everyday problems of life?
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