"For we walk by faith, not by sight." 2 Cor. 5:7
Paul spoke of living life in the expectant hope of what is to come for those who trust in Christ. That, by faith, we can sacrifice the riches and treasures of this life in exchange for those much greater. He chose to live in the supernatural, believing that God would "make a way, where there seems to be no way", and that normal logic, what makes sense, and human wisdom are made to be foolishness by God's faithfulness. (1 Cor. 1:20, 3:19)
Often times our faith is tried by what we see; when we choose to look at life and its circumstances with our physical eyes, they seem to overshadow who God really is and cause us to doubt Him, to question His calling on our lives, and we begin to "rationalize" our situations and make our own plans for success. But Paul did not say that "I walk by faith", he said "we walk by faith"; as followers of Jesus Christ, we do not focus our attention on what we see, the difficulties that lie before us, or the size of the enemy, we set our gaze on Christ, resurrected, ascended, and returning for His faithful beloved!
There will be times when God has promised us or called us to something that "reality" will set in and those around us will tell us to "wise up", to "wake up", even to "curse God and die". There will be times where we will get anxious and want to do things on our own, make our own way, and began to question if God cares, if He's able, or if we really heard God speak to us...
"Be still, and know that I am God;" Ps. 46:10
Check out this link to Greg and Janna Long's "In The Waiting"
What an amazing truth in these lyrics...
I've been preaching, for better than 3 years now, a message entitled "Reckless Abandonment"; in fact, I've been writing a book with this same title, and I thing the title is self explanatory. The message of willingly surrendering everything to life a of sold out abandonment for the glory of the name of Jesus to the world. The message is a tough one, and to be honest, the majority of those to whom I've preached it and taught it, didn't care much for the idea and rejected to follow my leadership because of it. And now I find myself at a moment of decision, a crossroads of faith and doubt and I've got to decide if this was just something that I was teaching or something that I actually believe...
-has God really called me? And can I really trust Him?-
And that the "Real Truth"!
