Hold on to the Premise and the Promise

UV 691/10,000 The Premise and the Promise “And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.” Hebrews 11 v 6 Faith is holding on to the unprovable premise that God exists not as if He exists but believing and knowing He exists. Faith is also holding on to the unverifiable promise that He not only exists but rewards those who seek Him and trust Him with their whole hearts. When we seek Him with all our heart, we will find Him. Many people like Sadhu Sundar Singh and many others who hated and disbelieved the Bible sought the true God with all their hearts and were surprised to see the vision of Jesus. Faith is the invisible currency of God with which we can buy equity in the invisible Heaven. We need to hold on to the premise of God despite the contrarian views and tell tale evidence of so called science. Faith is an absolutely essential prerequisite in order to relate to God. Even if our faith is small, it is enough to relate to Him. It begins with the tiny seed of the gospel but over time it grows organically into a big fruit-bearing tree. Faith expresses itself in love for God and love for mankind. Love itself is expressed in diverse ways. Holding on to the premise of God’s existence does not mean we suspend our rationality. It means that our rationality which is normally blinded not to see and experience God is freed from that blindness. It means realizing that true rationality means admitting that nothing can exist without a first cause and that first cause is God, nothing evolves on its own through time but everything deteriorates over time. It means that beyond the intellectual understanding of God, we need a direct personal relationship with Him where we believe His promises to us and appropriate it to our lives for our immediate and future need. We need to hold on to the promise of God patiently till He chooses the time and opening to fulfill it. Our faith is an admission that we cannot truly live without knowing and relating to God as our Father, Friend and Redeemer. The promises of God are the enabling provisions of the Word. When the Word is mixed with faith, the miraculous and supernatural power of God is released just as cement when mixed with mere sand and stones bonds into solid concrete. Faith is the cement or glue that holds all the disparate pieces of our lives together. It supplies the final key to solving the jigsaw puzzle of life. This uni-verse reveals that God is a rewarder or remunerator, the One who supplies our wages or meets our every need. He rewards those who diligently seek Him. The word ‘ diligence’ implies carefully study or investigate or probe and examine. Hence, the faith that we are called to exercise is not a blind faith but a diligent faith or a faith based on the study of the Word, a faith based on the testing of the reality of the promises of God, a faith based on increasing experience of His presence and blessings. Retaining a promise in our minds on a constant basis, and holding it up to God in prayer, believing and claiming it has led to my practically experiencing the truth of God’ s promises in scores of practical, real-life situations including solving of difficult crimes and dicey law and order scenarios. Prateep V Philip Listen to this Blessong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DpSIIiWkEM