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Walking By Faith

By Ryan, January 11, 2009

One of the biggest problems I see in Christians right now is the inability to walk by faith. Normally, when I see this kind of problem, I try to offer solutions. However, faith isn’t something that can be taught... the only way to learn it is to experience it. But what I can offer to you is an explanation of what it really means to walk by faith. This is a true story I heard from my dad:

When my family lived in Tulsa, we went to church with a man whom we shall call Jimmithy and his wife whom we shall call B’tilda. (Yes, they’re back!) Jimmithy had recently lost his job and couldn’t afford to stay in the house he had been living in. His wife’s parents were on an extended vacation and weren’t using their home, so they opened it up to Jimmithy and his family. But Jimmithy and B’tilda knew that if they didn’t force themselves to move out by a certain date, they would never move out. So they prayed and felt like God was telling them to move out by November twelvtieth (or something). So on November twelvtieth (or something), they invited a bunch of people from the church to come help them load their stuff in a U-Haul truck.

Part of walking by faith is simply a matter of total obedience. Jimmithy and B’tilda had no idea where they would be staying on the night of November twelvtieth (or something), but they did their part by moving out of B’tilda’s parents’ house when they did. And the story doesn’t end there.

Everybody who helped load U-Haul trucks naturally assumed that Jimmithy and B’tilda knew exactly where they were hauling their stuff... until someone decided to ask Jimmithy where they were going. Someone else, who was only in town by fluke, overheard the conversation and heard about Jimmithy not knowing where his family would live while they looked for houses. He told Jimmithy about a house he owned and had been trying to sell for months, and offered free rent until Jimmithy could find a permanent solution.

If Jimmithy hadn’t obeyed God on that one day, he would have never gotten the offer for the temporary house. This is how God works. But, like I said, you can’t truly understand faith until you’ve experienced it first-person. So I want you to be looking for opportunities to act on faith... try it for yourself and see what you think. Join the millions of other satisfied customers today? This is a difficult post to end...

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