One of the interesting things that I hear some Christians say is that somebody didn't have enough faith to be healed, to get that job, to get something accomplished, not enough faith. But when I read the Bible and when I listen to the Bible I hear some interesting things about faith.
Jesus told his disciples that if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can tell this mountain go and be thrown into the ocean and it will be done. A mustard seed is one of the smallest seeds.
So this isn't very much faith, but it packs a punch. Faith packs a punch. Faith is something that is small but grows into great big plants and other things. When Jesus would do a miracle more often than not, Jesus would do a miracle.
The stories say that he asked the person that he was healing. Do you want to be healed? Do you believe that I can do this? Do you believe this is possible? He didn't say you have to believe with your entire fiber of being.
He didn't say you have to be completely sold on this idea. Do you want to be healed? Do you believe this can happen? Even when you look at the story about the woman with the issue of bleeding, her faith was such that she Just wanted to touch the fringe of his outer cloak If I can just touch his cloak, I'll be healed. Not "if I can just get an hour of his time I'll be healed". Or "if I could just speak to him face to face I'll be healed". Just to touch the fringe of the outer garment.
One of the things that I learned in The Chosen, the series based on the gospel, is that Jewish people wear four tasseled fringes on their outer garment as prayer reminders. I'd kind of like to learn more about that, but I don't want to get bound up and all of a sudden have to wear tassels on my jackets and shirts.
But the way The Chosen depicted it they weren't very big. But they did add a splash of color to an otherwise boring coat.
Sometimes I think of faith like that. Faith adds a splash of color to an otherwise not real great situation and that color if you focus on it grows and dominates the entire thing.
You've got to have faith. To believe in God, you've got to have faith. Because we can't see him, smell him, touch him, or any of those physical things that we tend to want in order to prove something. In this day of spammers, scammers, and artificial intelligence beginning to be used for marketing, you've got to have a lot of faith in what you read and what you see in videos and pictures, because so much of it is fake and not real.
Even Peter, when he was confronted by Jesus on it, said, "I believe, help my unbelief!" That tells me that he didn't believe with his entire fiber, or he thought he did, but he still had doubts.
Just like us. And so for a fellow Christian to say that another Christian didn't have enough faith kind of makes me sad.
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