20/04/2021
IF NOT YOU WHO ELSE? PT 2 (JOHN 16:33)
Does it prove to you the existance of God? Does it prove to you that you are in fellowship with Him through Christ? Faith appears to be a bit of a miracle, in that it reveals to the heart the truth or reality or existance of something that the mind's eye does not see or cannot determine to be real or in existance.
So else does it prove? Does it prove... the infallibility of the bible? Has every facet of your faith proven the bible true? Put it another way, has everything in scripture proved applicable to your faith in a way that cannot be denied? For example: Are phrases like "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" validated by evidence in your daily walk? I'll bet. But, does historicity, geography, or chronology of the bible have an affect on your faith? Does the miracle of faith which tells you "God is real, and lives in and with me" have the same affect on your heart, when it comes to the infallibility of every point of scripture? i.e. Has your faith caused you to see some unseen vision of the literalness of the Genesis account of creation?
The questions still remains,why me? Our major problem is that we lack faith in God and His words. Faith proves big things. It is the evidence of things hoped for and the substance of things unseen. It seems circular, as this is from the bible, but this is the kind of miracle that faith produces... faith in itself, and in the God who is the author of it. Ian Thomas said that "Truth produces faith", yet another miracle. But how many things in the bible have produced miraculous faith, and how many things have produced a superficial faith that simply adheres to what is said, merely to keep up with the status quo, what seems to be the natural flow of things?
Remember,if our Lord Jesus Christ could face His own cross for us to have Salvation, then we must learn to carry ours through faith in Christ Jesus.
When the storms of life are raging all around, we sometimes feel that God is very far away. How could he have let this happen? Why isn’t he doing something, right now, to stop it or fix it? He could have prevented this storm and he didn’t. And so, we angrily cry out, “Lord, don’t you care?”
If we are not currently experiencing a time of difficulty, or a time of doubt and uncertainty, we should get ready, because, as Jesus assures us in John 16:33 (NLT), we will: “I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world!”
Breathren, whatever you might be going through right now, stop asking why me,for if not you,who else could it be? You have the mark of Christ on you, so keep trusting Him, let your faith be strong and wait on Him to come in at the appointed time and you will glorify God. Whatever the storms of your life might be, always remember that only the patient win the goals of life. Peace!
