A Meditation for Those Who Need Faith in God

Mark 11:22-25


"And Iesous answering saith unto them, "Have faith in Theou.""


"For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto the mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith."


"Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."


"And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any; that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."

One of the gifts of the Iesous is the power of clarity.  He gives the power of accurate spiritual perception.

"Have faith in Theou" is a call to move into the sphere where one can posses the assurance of the sustaining presence of God.

The challenge, however, is to move into the sphere of faith and set aside the sphere of manipulated awareness or conventional empiricism (Empiricism, of course has practical application for one's daily and temporal life).

The constraints of empirical experience mitigates the life of faith.  "Have faith in God" means to walk by faith and not by sight (empiricism).

Manipulated sensory awareness keeps us on the boundaries of the spiritual life.  The human eye can only perceive only one one millionth of the electromagnetic spectrum.  The light that we 'see' during the daytime came from the sun, our local star seven minutes ago.  When I look up at the stars at night I am looking back in time.

Faith moves us into the realm where we abandon sensory perception for spiritual perception.  It is here we meet Theou.

The Iesous states in this section of scripture that faith is not merely faith.  Faith is only as good as the object of faith.  Therefore faith in God stands in radical antithesis to any other specimen of faith.

If one has faith in God he can say to the mountain - not this mountain, but the mountain, be removed, and be thou cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart, but believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith.

What is the mountain in your life?  Do you want it removed?  Have faith in God and he will bring it to pass.

Faith in God empowers us to step out of the well worn tracks of others and embark upon the exciting journey of the new life script of faith-action.

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