Perhaps I am unique in life, but I suspect many can identify with me. I have always felt myself capable and believed that somehow I would make it through the difficult moments or the trials of life. This however does not prevent me from moments when I am filled with anxiety or times when stress seems to be the most dominant aspect of life for me.
However I know another experience as well. I have known and continue to know peace in conflict, rest in uncertainty, love when rejected, and hope when all seems lost and desperate. How do we know these things? For believers the word "faith" jumps into one’s mind. We are quick to declare life stability is by faith, and we are normally even quicker in prescribing "faith" to others.
Recently while reading the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) again my mind, and yes, my heart was impressed with the words of our Lord in Matthew 7: 24-27. You will recall this passage as our Lord's conclusion to His Sermon on the Mount. Here He describes faith as He prescribes "faith" as the ultimate remedy for anxiety. He says the ones who hear these words of mine and who do them will be like a house (life) built on a rock which withstands the torrents of life which may assail it with a barrage or threat, one after another.
This seems to be a picture of "faith"—believing enough to “do” what He teaches—and it is His plan for life stability. Let us abide, that we can "hear" and have the strength of the Spirit to "do" what He teaches as the way to life stability.
However I know another experience as well. I have known and continue to know peace in conflict, rest in uncertainty, love when rejected, and hope when all seems lost and desperate. How do we know these things? For believers the word "faith" jumps into one’s mind. We are quick to declare life stability is by faith, and we are normally even quicker in prescribing "faith" to others.
Recently while reading the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) again my mind, and yes, my heart was impressed with the words of our Lord in Matthew 7: 24-27. You will recall this passage as our Lord's conclusion to His Sermon on the Mount. Here He describes faith as He prescribes "faith" as the ultimate remedy for anxiety. He says the ones who hear these words of mine and who do them will be like a house (life) built on a rock which withstands the torrents of life which may assail it with a barrage or threat, one after another.
This seems to be a picture of "faith"—believing enough to “do” what He teaches—and it is His plan for life stability. Let us abide, that we can "hear" and have the strength of the Spirit to "do" what He teaches as the way to life stability.
