Walking by faith vs. walking by sight.
2 Cor 5:7 Our goal, our direction from the Bible, our plan, our
strength is to walk by faith.
What is the difference between walking
by faith and walking by sight? To walk by faith is to walk by the promises of God and not by experiences or what is possible. To walk by sight is to walk in the
natural. It is to walk in the possible. Christianity is an impossible
life. We are now in the Christmas season, and thinking people reject
the Christmas story because of the virgin birth of Jesus. That is
impossible they say. How can a baby be born if Mary did not have
relations with Joseph. Thinking people say Joseph and Mary must have
had relations and they just covered it up with this wild story.
This is why I say Christianity is an
impossible way of life. That is unless there is a God who is not
dead. We believe this story of a virgin birth and go even further and
believe that Jesus was not only born of a virgin but also raised from
the dead.
Thinking people just mock these ideas.
These are ridiculous ideas if all there is, is the natural.
Then Christians go on to say the Bible
was written by God through man. Jonah and the whale. Noah and the
ark. Moses parting the Red Sea. Jesus walking on the water. I could
go on and on about the miracles in the Bible. These are just stories,
they are just children's fairy tales, thinking people would say. The
Bible can't be believed,
In 2 Tim 3:16 it says, “All Scripture
is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for
correction, for training in righteousness;” Thinking people would
reject that and say it is just man's attempt to present morality.
Accept the morality but reject the stories. That is what thinking
people would say.
Are we thinking people or people of
faith? Now I am not saying people of faith do not think. On the
contrary people of faith do a lot more thinking than the so called
thinking people do.
God speaks and interjects His power on
earth daily. The Bible is true and every man is a liar. Romans 3:4
If the Bible is true would we not be wise in waiting as it tells us
to?
The natural man lives by what he sees
and what is possible. The man of faith lives by the teachings of the
Word of God and obeys the leading of the Holy Spirit as He is
directed to. The Holy Spirit brings to us the word of God and teaches
us the Scriptures. In John 6:63 it says, “"It is the Spirit
who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have
spoken to you are spirit and are life.”
We can live and walk by the promises of
the Bible. 2 Cor 1:20 says “For as many as are the promises of God,
in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the
glory of God through us.” and because of this we can be assured in
God and walk in the confidence and rest of faith.
And so when we walk by faith and not by
the natural what are doing? We are trusting in, relying upon, and
clinging to Jesus that He will back up His word in our life. Jeremiah 1:12
“Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am
watching over My word to perform it."
The fight of faith 1 Timothy 1:18 is the rejection of
all the doubt that comes when we walk by faith. This is explained in
2 Cor 10:3-5
Are we people of faith or do we just live like the so called thinking people?
God will enable us to live for Him and
not live in the past. Let us be obedient to God in faith today!
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