FAITH AGAINST FOOLISHNESS
“For we walk by faith,
not by sight:”
2 Corinthians 5:7
FAITH…
Hebrews 11:1 gives us a perfect
definition of what faith is; it says: “Faith is the substance of things hoped
for, the evidence of things not seen.” Faith is a virtue needed if anyone
really wants to walk with God. In fact, without faith, it is impossible to
please God. A faithless person will find difficulty in believing that a Supreme
Being made the heavens and the earth. Abraham’s faith in God was credited to
him as righteousness (Romans 4:22). With the smallest faith, the heavens can be
moved to work.
FOOLISHNESS…
Foolishness means lacking good sense
or/of judgment. Many also call it stupidity. Literally, foolishness can be used
to qualify actions that negate positive reasoning or discretion. In the secular
world, when you act against human wisdom and reason, then you are foolish; they
believe only human wisdom makes a man wise. But spiritually, reversed is the case.
How Faith And Foolishness Are
Related…
If a believer still considers things with the reasoning of men, then he
doesn’t understand faith yet. Until a believer ditches the wisdom of men, he
hasn’t started walking by faith. If faith works by the reasoning of men, it
would end up being limited; because the reasoning of man is so limited. The reasoning
of man cannot comprehend spiritual things:
“But the natural man
does not receive the things of the Spirit of God,
For they are
foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because
They are spiritually discerned.” – 1 Corinthians 2:14.
The mind of man is so small and
doesn’t have what it takes to handle spiritual matters; little wonder
1Corinthians 2:9 says: “But as it is written: eye have not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have it entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared
for those who love Him.”
Faith entails ditching of human wisdom and total dependence on God’s
foolishness (as it might appear to men), because the foolishness of God is
wiser than men – 1 Corinthians 1:25.
Almost every of God’s principle requires
a little percentage of human foolishness; for example: total obedience, paying
of tithe and first fruit offerings, sowing (financially), expecting the second
coming of Christ and even walking with God and many others.
HEROES OF FAITH
Abraham ditched human reasoning
by willing to sacrifice the son of his old age at God’s word. He believed in
God’s words of assurance even at an age when Sarah could no longer boast of
being a complete woman.
The wife of the prophet (2 Kings
4:2-6) accepted and believed God’s word through Prophet Elisha; she did not
allow doubts to intervene as to how the jar of oil would go on to fill all the
empty vessels she borrowed. Faith works!
Peter is also one (Matthew 14:22-33). He had the faith that if Christ
could walk on water, he can as well do that. When doubt crept in, he started to
drown.
The woman with the issue of blood
(Mark 5:25-28). How will a person believe strongly that touching the helm of
someone’s garment could make her whole after spending so much on physicians to
no avail? Indeed, faith is so powerful!
Remember: Faith calls things that
are not as though they were…and they came into being.
Remain Blessed!
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