Belief
Mat 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Jesus says we can get anything through prayer. This is great news for those is need. Yet there is one caveat in the phrase. We must believe. That can be the sticking point because when we are in dire need, then is the easiest time to have doubts about God. Maybe we feel like he doesn't care about us. It's hard to be like Job, stoically enduring every misfortune meted out to him. We become those of little faith.
2Cor 7:10For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Hard times help Satan gain a hold over us. He whispers in our ear that God doesn't love us, there is no God. We remember Christ's words.
Mathew 6:30. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, [shall he] not much more [clothe] you, O ye of little faith? 31. Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32. (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof.
Yet we can still doubt when suffering continues. Sometimes we never get them. Think of the Christians that starve to death in Africa. Satan has a field day with that. There are no easy answers to this dilemma, we only have to believe that God knows what is best for us better than we do, maybe even death. Suffering happens but God will sustain us and keep his promise of eternal life, the greatest prize of all, if we only believe.
Jesus says we can get anything through prayer. This is great news for those is need. Yet there is one caveat in the phrase. We must believe. That can be the sticking point because when we are in dire need, then is the easiest time to have doubts about God. Maybe we feel like he doesn't care about us. It's hard to be like Job, stoically enduring every misfortune meted out to him. We become those of little faith.
2Cor 7:10For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Hard times help Satan gain a hold over us. He whispers in our ear that God doesn't love us, there is no God. We remember Christ's words.
Mathew 6:30. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, [shall he] not much more [clothe] you, O ye of little faith? 31. Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32. (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof.
Yet we can still doubt when suffering continues. Sometimes we never get them. Think of the Christians that starve to death in Africa. Satan has a field day with that. There are no easy answers to this dilemma, we only have to believe that God knows what is best for us better than we do, maybe even death. Suffering happens but God will sustain us and keep his promise of eternal life, the greatest prize of all, if we only believe.
posted by Fred Sharp at 10:27 AM
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