[Faith-talk] FW: [URCTCPrayerGroup2] Applying faith by Greg Laurie

[Eric Calhoun]

This one is touching!


Original Message: 
From: "Donna" <whitedove57 at att.net>
To: <URCTCPrayerGroup2 at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [URCTCPrayerGroup2] Applying faith by Greg Laurie
Date: 
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:29:18 -0400

Applying Faith
Jesus said to him, "Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed.
Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
- John 20:29


Some people say they cannot have faith because they are practical. They
need to know something is true before they can believe it.

But we all apply faith every day. When you go to a restaurant, order a
meal, and eat what they bring, that is faith. You are not sure if they
followed all the sanitary guidelines they are supposed to follow. You don't
know whether the waiter might be a little ticked off at you and has thrown
a few little surprises into your entree. You don't know. So you apply
faith.

When you go down to the pharmacy to fill your prescription, you assume
the little pills the pharmacist gave you are actually the ones you ordered
and not a placebo, or even worse, another kind of medication that could be
harmful to you. You apply faith.

When you have surgery and are put under anesthesia, you must put complete
faith in the anesthesiologist, surgeons, and nurses. Or how about when you
board a plane and taxi down the runway in that 747? Do you understand
aerodynamics? Most of us wouldn't. Yet we believe those pilots in the
cockpit are hopefully not drunk or distracted. We hope they will get us
safely to our destination.

My point is this: we apply faith each and every day. Faith is belief plus
action. It is what we apply when we initially come to Jesus Christ. We
acted on something that we accepted as true. The Bible says, "For by grace
you have been saved through faith" (Ephesians 2:8). 

So when someone refuses to put their faith in God, it leaves me
wondering. They can put faith in a waiter, in a pharmacist, in a surgeon,
and in a pilot, but they won't put their faith in God Almighty.

In His love,
Donna

The Lord is my Shepherd. I shall not want. Ps 23:1