The Three Endurances ~ Faith in the Moment

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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The Three Endurances ~ Opening Thoughts

Greetings Dear Reader,

“I may speak in the languages of humans and of angels. But if I don't have love, I am a loud gong or a clashing cymbal.”

Even if every work I say is true and exact there are other things that matter.  I know people who value being direct.  Their speech often lacks love and kindness.  They may say what is true but it does not mean that they are doing good. 

Words spoken endure.  They last and dance around in the mind to either comfort or harm.  Words can be salves or weapons.  It is the way in which we use them that matters.  Actions are the same.  They are easier to identify in their character but are either ill or good.  I have often shown that there are no secular issues or rusty swords in the battle over good and evil.

This may seem a tangent but in life we seek longevity.  We seek things that will endure after we are gone.  We want to be remembered.  Some become addicted to fame.  Some are willing to sacrifice everything and anyone for it.  We seek to endure in all the wrong ways. 

What does endure is what matters.  What lasts is that which lasts beyond this life, age, eon, or world.  I am pondering this because I want to invest my life in what matters.  I want to do what matters.  Please join me Dear Reader in pondering that which endures.

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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