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Faith and trust

I don’t need more than faith.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – you will never see and know God through the intellectual evidential search, you must arrive at a point of faith for evidence will never see him.
Hebrews 11:1,13,14-16,33
Now faith brings our hopes into reality and becomes the foundation needed to acquire the things we long for. It is all the evidence required to prove what is still unseen.
Hebrews 11:13
These heroes all died still clinging to their faith, not even receiving all that had been promised them. But they saw beyond the horizon the fulfilment of their promises and gladly embraced it from afar. They all lived their lives on earth as those who belonged to another realm.
Hebrews 11:14-16
[14] For clearly, those who live this way are longing for the appearing of a heavenly city. [15] And if their hearts were still remembering what they left behind, they would have found an opportunity to go back. [16] But they couldn’t turn back for their hearts were fixed on what was far greater, that is, the heavenly realm! So because of this God is not ashamed in any way to be called their God, for he has prepared a heavenly city for them.
Hebrews 11:33
Their faith fastened onto their promises and pulled them into the reality.

Observation

You can demand evidence or you can walk by faith. Evidence is always asking “Is it true, can I believe it,” and it is as fragile as the introduction of new information, or the emotional swing of difficult circumstances. Faith looks only to the one who made the promise and asks “Is he faithful?” Faith to the intellect, the logical part of our brain, can be insulting, for the intellect demands evidence and assurances, testing and proof. Whereas faith to the spiritual part of our brain is received and exercised with an assurance that is far deeper than logic and defies the fragility of the intellect. It is not based on evidence but an experience of the one who makes the promise. This is why “faith brings our hopes into reality and becomes the foundation needed to acquire the things we long for. It is all the evidence required to prove what is still unseen.”

Faith is not natural to this world. To live by faith is to “live your life on earth as one who belongs to another realm.” It is unnatural and supernatural way to live. It lives outside of the evidential assurances and lives in the loving arms of the one who makes the promises. It’s an experienced knowing of the heavenly realm. Faith is an issue of the heart. If your heart longs for the things of the natural realm, then you will return to them, even though they offer much less, and what they offer is so fragile, it’s just our heart longs for assurance, an intellectual knowing, that feels more solid, more secure, safer, than a heavenly promise. But when our heart is fixed in the heavenly realm then we don’t turn back. This is why we must guard our hearts.

“Their faith fastened onto their promises and pulled them into the reality.” Faith alone fastens me to the promises of God and shapes my reality in her promises. This is how heaven comes to earth, by the fastening of my faith in heaven’s presence on earth. It shapes my earth in the ways and realities of heaven in the here and now.

Faith assures me of the heavenly city prepared for me. As I farewell my mum from this earthly body home she once inhabited it is my faith that brings into my reality the promise of her entry into the heavenly city. Her leaving here would be nothing but utter sadness, without relief, without meaning, without anything other than the pit of loss, if it were not for her faith, and my faith, that she is now a citizen of the heavenly realm. No more tears, a new unfailing body through which to enjoy the uninterrupted presence of her God’s love. I am not sure how you lose a loved one if you don’t have faith of a new reality for them. Faith pulls that reality into my grieving, and as I grieve I celebrate and give thanks.


Application

Thank you for the life of faith. I will live by faith, staying steadfast in the faithfulness of the God who promises so much to me. I will exercise my faith to pull her promises into my reality. The promises of heaven are all ready to be fulfilled in my life, faith is the posture, the conduit, the means, through which the realities of heaven flow into the natural of my life. I will stand and live this way.


Response

Thank you for faith. You ask me for it, then go before me and you gift it to me. Thank you that you don’t make me earn or deserve, you do not transact with me, rather you offer me, promise me, all of heaven and ask that I receive it by faith. I love the life of faith, fill me with more of that gift of faith.


Meditation

Meditate – faith fastened onto their promises and pulled them into the reality.

Consider:
Do I live by faith or do I demand evidence?
How much more of heaven would be mine on earth if I lived by faith?


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