Walking in Faith

I would like to share with all of you a story to start the day.

The Law of the Pedulum

In college I was asked to prepare a lesson to teach my speech class. We were to be graded on our creativity and ability to drive home a point in a memorable way. The title of my talk was, “The Law of the Pendulum.” I spent 20 minutes carefully teaching the physical principle that governs a swinging pendulum.
The law of the pendulum is: A pendulum can never return to a point higher than the point from which it was released. Because of friction and gravity, when the pendulum returns, it will fall short of its original release point. Each time it swings it makes less and less of an arc, until finally it is at rest. This point of rest is called the state of equilibrium, where all forces acting on the pendulum are equal.
I attached a 3-foot string to a child’s toy top and secured it to the top of the blackboard with a thumbtack. I pulled the top to one side and made a mark on the blackboard where I let it go. Each time it swung back I made a new mark. It took less than a minute for the top to complete its swinging and come to rest. When I finished the demonstration, the markings on the blackboard proved my thesis.
I then asked how many people in the room BELIEVED the law of the pendulum was true. All of my classmates raised their hands, so did the teacher. He started to walk to the front of the room thinking the class was over. In reality it had just begun.
Hanging from the steel ceiling beams in the middle of the room was a large, crude but functional pendulum (250 pounds of metal weights tied to four strands of 500-pound test parachute cord.).
I invited the instructor to climb up on a table and sit in a chair with the back of his head against a cement wall. Then I brought the 250 pounds of metal up to his nose. Holding the huge pendulum just a fraction of an inch from his face, I once again explained the law of the pendulum he had applauded only moments before, “If the law of the pendulum is true, then when I release this mass of metal, it will swing across the room and return short of the release point. Your nose will be in no danger.”
After that final restatement of this law, I looked him in the eye and asked, “Sir, do you believe this law is true?”
There was a long pause. Huge beads of sweat formed on his upper lip and then weakly he nodded and whispered, “Yes.”
I released the pendulum. It made a swishing sound as it arced across the room. At the far end of its swing, it paused momentarily and started back. I never saw a man move so fast in my life. He literally dived from the table.
Deftly stepping around the still-swinging pendulum, I asked the class, “Does he believe in the law of the pendulum?”
The students unanimously answered, “NO!”

Ken Davis, How To Speak To Youth, pp. 104-106

Does this sound similar to our faith in the Lord?

Every Sunday, we go down the church proclaiming that the Lord is alive, singing songs of worship. However, when we leave the church, we do not act as if the Lord is alive in us and in our lives.

What is Faith?

After hearing the sermon by P.S Khong yesterday, I was convinced more that works and faith goes hand in hand. With faith, nothing is impossible.

Works without Faith is dead but Faith without works is dead Faith.

I truely believe that by his stripes I will be healed and I believe that the miracle sunday on Easter have healed my sickness. I believe that the root problem have been cured. I do not just believe in it, I know I have been healed. (This does not mean I will stop taking my medicine, I would still have to raise my iron levels although my root problem is healed).

Yesterday, I came down to the altar again to ask for healing. This time round, it was for my bowel problems that have been plagueing me for quite some time. Due to digestive problems, I would have diahorrea every morning without fail and this have been sapping my energy and giving me lots of problems. Just to testify, I did not have diahorrea this morning and the cramps have stopped. Thank the lord for his healing.

A miracle, derived from the old Latin word miraculum meaning "something wonderful", is a striking interposition of divine intervention by a god in the universe by which the ordinary course and operation of Nature is overruled, suspended, or modified. - Wikipedia.

I know many people who come to churches just wanting to see miracles, see people stand up and walk. They want to see things happen supernaturally. Maybe a flying pastor, or the Lord appearing on the stage as the guest speaker for the day. Only then will they CONSIDER believing in God.

But truely, I believe that faith is the belief in God and acting because of that belief rather than seeing then "believing".

The Christian walk is a walk by faith and not by sight. The best miracle that people can see is not the miracles that happen for other people but miracles that happen for your own lives.

Will you stand up in faith and claim the miracles that God have prepared for your life and not just being contented to see miracles in other people's lives?

Stand firmly in the ship manned by the Lord and do not continue to try to row our own sampans full of holes.

Only then can we dare to look beyond the horizons and dream to reach the shores that the Lord have prepared for us.

Go Deep
Look Far
Dream Big