How is your faith today? Is it dependent upon your circumstances? When things get bad does your faith weaken and falter? Do you have to see to believe? Or is your faith healthy and robust?
As you deal with Parkinson's Disease (or whatever your problem) are you able to believe in the goodness of God? Are you able to believe that God is sovereign when just days ago a young man went berserk in a movie theater and murdered people indiscriminantly and without mercy as he shot them? Are you able to believe in God when you're living in a world ruled by mad men just itching to go nuclear?
I hope so. If you are not able to trust in God and believe He is all the Bible claims Him to be, today, then how will you survive through tomorrow? Our world is precariously perched on the edge of an abyss. God told us ahead of time this was coming and He is warning us in many ways,that if we don't change course we could face what Joel Rosenberg refers to as "implosion".
I don't know why we see evil that befalls the innocent, but I don't have to see to believe. My mind is only able to understand so much, and then the rest must be taken on faith. I believe that God is love, that He is all knowing and all powerful and present everywhere. My mind is like a car that runs out of gas. It can only take me so far. Then I need gas to get me where I'm going. The gas is faith.
Now is not the time to doubt or to be unsure. Make sure your faith is healthy today.
2 comments:
Thank you so much for your thoughts.I am also a Christian with parkinsons and am trying to work through some of these issues.This post really encouraged me.
Karl, thank you for your comment! We must continue to encourage one another. Thanks for letting me know you're out there!
Post a Comment