Sincere Faith
Faith is a total self-surrender to the sovereignty of God. Faith is not a transaction that requires reciprocal action request. If we want honest, often times our faith to God no more than just a transaction or request purely reciprocal action. If I have been faithful to serve God, then He must be responsible for maintaining the life of me, and I bless. If I have to pray with Earnest, then God must be a struggle my life. If I have to give, then he must return it folded times. Is not this more appropriate if it is said that we are doing "transaction" with the Lord?
Faith clearly not like that. Faith is the surrender themselves to the absolute sovereignty of God. I will write the description in Habakkuk 3:17-19 today. "Even if our business does not generate money, not career meet rise, disappointing investment returns, even if what has been done does not produce anything, the customer's vague clutch, and does not have more money in the bank, but I will be cheer in the Lord, joy in the God who saved me. Lord GOD is my strength ... "
One of my favorite character is David Livingstone, a man who already has a well-established life but leave the safe zone for serving God in Africa. After many years serving in Africa, what he get? Children who are very dear wife, and died because of illness. He has a tremendous Temptation. Left arm does not work because the crowd was great solved lion, his body emaciated, so it was half deaf because of fever, rheumatism, and half blind because of tree branches that eye. However David Livingstone to the faith of the Lord is never dull. That is the faith of resignation, not the faith of the transaction! How our faith to God? Whether our faith is determined by the and to the good things that God gave to us anyway? Do not have faith until the transaction with God, but own resignation to His sovereignty.
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