Walk by Faith

Okay. So I was doing my Beth Moore study and she was talking about walking by faith and not sight. How many times have we heard the passage "Walk by faith, not by sight." Like a million right? But this time I read it and something clicked. 

In the back of my mind I had always viewed this verse like, oh I can't use my eyes because God said not to so I guess I'll kinda sorta stumble through life and see if I can make it on just faith, like when a blind person has to use their other senses to make up for the lost one, my faith will eventually get strong because I can't use my eyes. This is so back words! 

I read that same verse again that I have been reading like my whole life and I now finally understand what it means. Our faith should be so out front, so bold, so much stronger than any other sense that we have that we automatically don't need our eyes at all! In fact, our faith should be such a vital part of our lives that any other sense, including sight, would dumb down our faith and put it in a box. 

In reality, our eyes are not a tool that God says we "can't use", they are hindrances that put our faith in a box. 

It's like when you are reading a book with no pictures, as you read you let your mind imagine what things and places and people look like and sound like, you have very little rules of what to imagine and your brain just runs with it. But as soon as we see that book played out in a movie, or see the pictures in the back of the book, our versions of what we perceived in our minds are immediately confined to a box and "rules" are placed on what the things, people, and places, look like, smell like, sound like, etc. 

It's the same with our faith. Spiritual sight is not something we are deprived of, it is something that God knows we as humans couldn't handle, we would use it to put God and faith in a box. 

I don't know if that made sense or if it's just me, but I had never seen that verse in that way before and it blew my mind. :)

I don't have time...

I'm so busy now and days"..."I can't seem to find time"..."I will try again when my life calms down"...

A lot of people have used this excuse, including myself when it comes to God. It's true, life comes fast, and time runs out, but I honestly believe that this is not our problem. 

Not having enough time for God is not the reason why we don't spend time with Him.

I honestly believe with all my heart that the reason we skip quiet time, forget to pray, or read the bible is not because we ran out of time, it's because we forget who God is. We as believers forget the need we have for our God. We forget how huge, how massive, how exciting, and how active our God is. We don't believe that God is who He says He is, or that God can do what He says He can do.

I have so so much to say on this topic so I will try to keep it short and not tear up but that's how much this topic means to me. 

If we truly realized and understood who our God is then we would never need the excuse of "I don't have time" or "I'm not motivated." The truth is that we have priorities and God, most of the time, just isn't one of them. We have completely forgotten the state we are in. We need God. Let me say that again. We need God. I still don't think you got it completely. We NEED God. NEED. As in we are desperate for God to work and live and be active in our lives. Desperate! Yet for some reason we are trapped into thinking that God is a God who is "in the background, there to listen when we need Him, but doesn't really matter when it comes to every day" kind of God. This is a lie from the pit of HELL.

We have a God who gave us LIFE when we were DYING. Who SAVED our SOULS from condemnation. This is not a small thing, yet it has been so watered down for us. Jesus is no longer the powerful sacred name of our Savior. Jesus is a name the preschoolers in Sunday school say so they can have an extra cracker.

Once I was talking with a few of my friends about what God was doing in the church and I was about to say the name "Jesus" and I stopped myself and said, out loud, "I don't like saying Jesus, it's really powerless to me." I couldn't believe the words that came out of my mouth! Jesus. The name above any other, was powerless?? Yet we as a generation believe it. The name Jesus is more often than not used as "the Sunday school answer" than a name that moves mountains, heals the sick, and brings life to the dead. I can not tell you how much this saddens my soul. We no longer have the reverence or the awe of the name,Jesus. Yet we expect to automatically have the drive to proclaim His name to the world?? How can we preach when we don't have the passion?? We need to fix the root issue, our perspective.

Brothers and sisters, when I say we, I am including myself. I am constantly blinded to the massiveness of God. We can NOT let this happen! How are we supposed to have passion in the church when we worship a watered down God?? We need. Need. NEED. NEED. To wake up and throw ourselves down before the God of the universe, the God who, at a thought, created the WORLD. He is no small God. We are desperate for Him, DESPERATE. We NEED Him to use us for His will and for His glory. He has got to be everything to us. Everything. 

Believers, we have the privilege to spend time with our Savior. Let us never take that for granted. Let's fix our perspective. If we truly believed that God was who He says He is, and that He does what He says He can do, then God would be our everything, we would never have to fit Him into our schedule again, because He is what we live for. If that isn't completely and terrifyingly exciting then I don't know what is.

So next time you think you don't have time, think again.