Wednesday, March 20, 2013

The madness of faith


With great sacrifice, you manage to buy a new car, but when you turn the key in the ignition, it does not start.
What will your reaction be?
Do you peacefully start fasting and praying to solve the problem, or revolt against the situation and go after your rights?
You work hard all month long, but when its time to get your paycheck, your boss says that he is unable to pay you.
What do you do?
Go complain about it to God or take your boss to court?
Of course you are going to choose the second option.
Why is that?
Because you are aware of your rights and you do not allow anyone to deceive, cheat or deprive you of them. Isn’t that right?
You do your part in the covenant with God.
You do your duties as a servant, obeying God’s commandments, you are faithful with your tithes and offerings, maintain a pure conscious, etc. But, when it comes time to put bread on the table for your family, you don’t have money.
Its as if the windows of heaven are still closed for you.
How will you react?
Are you going to wait until something falls from the sky into your lap or talk to the One who promised to open them?
This is precisely when your faith boils and you start taking action.
In a surge of anger and indignation against misery, you take the Bible and go for the all or nothing, life or death, and boldly, claim the fulfillment of what is promised before the Lord.
But, there is one thing your faith does not accept: to continue living in the same conditions. After all, your stomach has no patience.
This reaction is the purest expression of faith.
I believe that God has allowed His people to suffer injustice so that they will exercise their faith for their rights and not leave it in a cast of religious habits.
If the possession of the Kingdom of Heaven is done through an aggressive and sacrificial faith, I can imagine that everything else is done in the same manner.
"And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force," Matthew 11.12

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