Hebrews 11:1 in the New Living Translation says, "Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about the things we cannot see."
Faith is confidence and assurance. Look, I don't know about you, but when the world is turning upside down, when industries and institutions are shaken to the ground, when people are murdering one another in the streets in the name of their religion, when all of creation is literally coming apart at the seams, I NEED faith in God.
Hebrews 11:3 in the NLT says, "By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible".
What's visible to our eyes is all the bad stuff. We see the TV coverage, we see the disasters, we see the crime, we see the hate, we see the strife, we see the suffering, we see our inadequacies, we see our insecurities, we see our bills, we see the things we can't do and the things we can't change. But God didn't make the universe out of the stuff we see. So he gave us another set of eyes to give us hope; the eyes of faith. And the eyes of faith allow us to see that no matter what happens in the world, in our hometown, on our street, or at our kitchen table, God is complete control. Our faith in God is not conditioned on circumstances, but rather on the supernatural ability to believe that the same God who created everything, is more than able to hold it all together. Our faith in God reveals this truth: If He was big enough to make it all, He's big enough to care for it.
Though the times may be uncertain, God is not uncertain. Let your heart be at peace.
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