Childlike Faith

I know that I have already talked about faith a lot of different times but it just keeps coming up! And if something keeps on being impressed on my heart, than I have to talk about it, or in this case blog about it. :)

"I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” - Luke 18:8
When Jesus comes back on the earth will he find faith? I know that he will in me, but how about you?
Faith is trust, hope, and belief in the goodness, trustworthiness of a person, concept or entity.

"Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”  - mark 10:15
The Bible tells us that we have to have faith like a child if we are ever to enter the kingdom of God. Children have an undeniable faith. They are gullible, they believe everything that they hear. Normally when someone calls us gullible we take it that they are almost making fun of us. But in God's eyes, if we are gullible than we will have faith like a child. We must believe. Children don't need to have a thesis paper in front of them to believe what the Bible says, they just believe! And that is what we have to do if we are ever going to enter the kingdom of God.

"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. ² This is what the ancients were commended for.
³ By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible." - Hebrews 11:1-3
Without faith it is IMPOSSIBLE to please God.
It's okay for us to have questions when times get hard, but what are you going to do with those questions? You must lay them at the foot of the cross. Hand everything over to Jesus. This is something that I have to deal with daily.Whenever something just doesn't go my way or I can't figure out why something is happening, I can't handle it on my own. I have trust in God. Because He is the only being that has secrets that we will never know about. He knows everything and will work everything together for His good. But we have to choose to trust in Him.

:By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith."
- Hebrews 11:7
We need to be like Noah. Noah had no proof that their was going to be a flood. He only knew what God had told him. But for Noah that was enough. He had childlike faith. He chose to build an ark that was full of safety. Let faith arise! Open you eyes! Noah had to believe and step out by faith.

Faith requires us to believe in something greater than we can see. To live is Christ and to die is gain.

"By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. ⁹ By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. ¹¹ And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she^[b] considered him faithful who had made the promise. ¹² And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore." - Hebrews 11:8-12

By faith Abraham... by his faith he did what God called him to do. Abraham was good as dead. But God told him that he was going to have descendants as numerous as the sand on the seashore. As many as the stars in the sky.
You may have felt as good as dead, but let faith arise inside of you and ward off those negative thoughts if depression, oppression, worthlessness, ugliness, stupidness, any thoughts that will hinder your faith in Him.

I would like to tell you a story about a donkey, a farmer, and a pit.
One time there was a farmer who had a very old donkey. Now this donkey was getting slower and couldn't do half of the work that he could've done a few years earlier. This same farmer also had a very deep pit in the donkey's pasture. One day the farmer had been calling and calling his donkey. He couldn't find him anywhere so he decided to go out to his field and check the deep pit. Sure enough the old donkey had fallen into the pit and was braying his sad brays begging for help. The farmer had to make a decision, he decided that donkey was as good as dead anyways and he needed to fill up the pit anyways. So the farmer started to throw dirt into the pit with donkey, alive, in it! As he was throwing the dirt in the donkey started thinking. Wait a second, I'm still alive here! I have more life in me, what are you doing?!?! As the farmer would throw the dirt into the pit the donkey would shake it off and step on top of it. Again and again the donkey did this until eventually he just jumped up and ran away.

The moral of this story is that don't let people or your thoughts try to make you feel as good as dead. God's not finished with you yet. If He was you would know, and other people wouldn't.
Today I want you to take captive of those negative thoughts and crowd them out with the word. Meditate on the word today and spend some extra time in prayer. Determine in your heart that you are a child of God, you have childlike faith, not execute it!