Greetings Dear Reader,
I have written often about faith and the endurance it can
provide. I need not dive back into that
but rather wish to talk about the limited quality of faith. There are ways in which faith expires.
There is a certain man who is in a struggle financially. He related this to me. He had a moment where he became anxious about
meeting his obligations. He felt the
worry and fear. He understood the
situation. He knew that he was being
frugal with his savings and using his money wisely. Further he knew that he was not going to
violate his faith in God’s promise to provide.
Just after this thought he went to his mailbox and there was a gift from
a friend to help tide him over.
You see there was an expiration date on that moment of
faith. Had he chosen to violate his
faith in that moment he would have lost the opportunity to see it
realized. This is no small thing. As I spoke with my friend this week to get
permission to write about him he related how this had happened again. This time, however, he dismissed the moment of
fear easily because of the Father’s provision.
He still has to have faith but it is bolstered by experience in having
faith.
Faith for the moment always has an expiration date. It is that moment. We are given opportunities daily to exercise
our faith. They are fleeting and vital
opportunities. This thought sheds a new
light for me on something Jesus said. He
said, “He that is faithful in small things will be faithful in great things.” The context is not this particular vein but
the application is vital.
Being faithful in those fleeting moments of opportunity
strengthens our faith. It prepares us
inch by inch for the times when our faith may be all that we have to sustain
us. I must constantly be aware that
faith is supposed to be a part of the fuel for all I do. Ultimately faith will become site and be unnecessary
on the grand scale. I must be faithful
in the fleeting moments that offer me opportunity to have faith. It is the small drops of the moment that lead to faith as
broad as the ocean.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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