Good day beloved in Christ.
On the 25-11-2023, we discussed Matthew 8:26, where we noted that in times of trouble a believer calling God for help is faith, however Jesus let us understand that it is little faith. We could do better by acting faith against the situation. Jesus also related the little faith with been fearful.
Jesus exposed their fear, before rebuking the very winds and the sea of the tempest which were causing much chaos on the boat they were on board.
For having made such a remark before following up with such an amazing act of faith, Jesus had not only revealed His true divine nature to us all, but had also revealed the greater works (John 14:12) He intends for us all to do if only we had faith the size of a mustard seed (Luke 17:6, Matthew 17:19).
Scripture tells us that as followers of Christ that we should strive always to walk by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7), which admittedly and more oftentimes than not, is much easier said than done. Just like the Apostles of old, when the going gets tough for us all and the tempest of the storms in our daily lives seems to be too much for our ships of confidence and assurance to handle, we cry out to the Lord in desperation, pleading to Him to save us from our sorry state of helplessness and hopelessness.
But as many times as we cry out to the Lord in desperation, we for just as many a time forget of the Lord’s foreknowledge of our troubling circumstances and the solutions that He had pre-arranged in place to aid us in resolving them.
Take for instance the ‘Parting of the Red Sea’ account from Exodus 14, whereby Moses and the Israelites were quite literally (to invoke the idiom) stuck between the devil or rather, Satan (that is, the adversary – in this case, the Egyptians) and the Deep Blue (or rather, Red) Sea. Many of the Israelites (unbeknownst to themselves) had unleashed their complaints unto the Lord through means of Moses; sarcastically bemoaning if he had simply and solely dragged them out of the land of Egypt (and out of the hands of their slave masters, of whom they were more than happy to be servile unto) just so that they could perish in the midst of the wilderness.
But little did they know that the Lord was not only aware of all their whinging and whining, but that He had already set in motion the events that would soon transpire to ensure the safety and security of the Israelites, for He had already sent forth His angel before their encampment, unbeknownst to them.
And all that was merely asked of them in return was to place their utmost trust and faith in Him to proceed forward in their path, but not before having their leader (who is Moses) lift up his rod, stretch his hand over the sea and divide it accordingly.
Fellow children of God, we must always take utmost care to bear in mind the fact that the one sole thing that pleases the Lord our God the most in this entire universe is our unwavering and unyielding faith in Him; faith that He is God and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him (Hebrews 11:6). For faith is the substance of things hoped for - the evidence of things not seen, and by it the elders of old (i.e. prophets, kings and apostles) obtained a good report (Hebrews 11:1-2).
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Cheers,
Dennis Onuigbo
25-11-2023
Little faith - why one is fearful
