Faith: that ridiculously easy, yet hideously difficult concept to grasp. Faith: easy to articulate, except when it isn't. Faith: you have it, but at times trying to hold on to it is like trying to catch smoke. Isn't faith just a contradiction at times? I am glad to say, "No, it isn't." The conflict/confusion/craziness is wholly in us; in you and me.
What do we do about it? I will be bold enough to declare that I know. :-D One word: SURRENDER. Yeah, I said it. I meant it too. SURRENDER. Look, I am assuming you have at least a passing relationship with Yeshua (Jesus the Messiah), so I am operating under the assumption that you already know that your life is NOT your own. You have been BOUGHT with a price. Your RANSOM has been paid. I could go on and on and on, but I know you are already feeling what I am squealing. SURRENDER. Stop fighting faith and it will stop fighting you.
Of course, faith isn't actually fighting you or me. It just seems that way at times because we have a corporeal tendency to want to "feel" our way through life rather than be led by the Spirit. We are so, so, tactile. We just have to be in control; except we don't. Do you REALLY want to be drama free? SURRENDER. There is a release that comes with total surrender to Jah.
I was meditating on the FIRST part of Hebrews 11:6 one day a long time ago, sitting in a jacuzzi. I was alone and able to totally give myself over--SURRENDER--to what this word had for me. What hit me like a ton of bricks was this auricular revelation: "With faith it is EASY to please Me." Case closed! Eight words that carried more freight than I ever imagined eight words could carry. Yet, there it was, lifting my spirit and destroying ANY excuse I may try to conjure up later in life. If that revelation has hit you like it hit me, and I pray that it will, one of the great mysteries of life on this earthly vale of tears will have been solved. Not because I am so clever, but because Jah willed it to be so.
And that is just the first portion of that verse of scripture! Careful meditation on it will drive you into a certain wilderness only to refresh you with Living Water. Some folks get hung up on things that do not matter--I know that at times in my life I have. Getting a deeper understanding of how you and your faith relate to the Creator MATTERS. If you do not have a proper concept of faith and the role it plays in your relationship with Jah, you won't be able to please Him or yourself. You will be tossed, torn, twisted, tangled--OK, enough with the alliteration, I know you understand what I am saying.
Until the next time...
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