Undiluted Faith

Hebrews 11 highlights a few faithful moments from both the Old and New Testament and the best part of it all, these faithful moments never seem to lose its spunk in our current day to day living.
When last have you heard, witnessed or experienced a miracle?
For me, it’s pretty recent.
Faith for me is aligning myself to the way God wants to do things and that means He has full reign and control.  When you totally surrender and commit let’s just say life can never be the same again.  There will be moments when you are 90% there and doors start shutting in your face or cancellations happen the last minute and you say to yourself, “Who am I kidding?  It’s impossible! What now?”
I find it refreshing enough to know that it’s in these moments that God uses to test just how much we desire His plans for us.

Today I was blessed with yet another foreigner coming up to me and us having a small time “church” meeting.
Edmund is all the way from Bermuda.  Don’t let his exterior fool you!  When he first walked into the shop he looked all Reggae, dreadlocks, big beard, a Jamaican colored scarf, the works.
Last week I met a Jamaican guy and he follows Rastafarianism.  We had a very detailed discussion about this movement and I thought that I will have yet another interesting discussion with this gentleman but I was fooled!

I have no idea how Edmund and myself started chatting about faith, Christianity and scripture.  He got to share with me that the airline lost his luggage and all he is living on is his hand luggage because He has faith that God will return his bag.  I had the opportunity of sharing a miracle story with him that happened today and Edmund jumped around the store, with tears in his eyes praising God for another man’s miracle.  I found this odd because usually you would wallow in self-pity and not be happy for another person but he was genuinely excited and even more thrilled.

He then went on to share about his personal life.  The type of work he does, the mission work he is involved in and why Enoch inspires him so much (Enoch walked closely with the Lord).
Edmund, a down to earth, humbled individual owns a law firm in Bermuda and teaches children every Tuesday how to read and write (the really poor children living in the slums).
I stood before this man gob-smacked!  He asked me where he could attend church and I offered him the details.  Now how’s that for randomness? Edmund could have walked into another other shop in the shopping centre.

He shared so many scriptures with me and Hebrews 11 was one of them.  Verse 40 stands out the most, “God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.”
It all makes sense.  I will never be able to do anything on my own, ever.

My conclusion from our God-appointed meeting is, we can do really impressive-looking things, but what we take into eternity is who we become.
When our faith is tested drastically, what do we hold onto?  Where do we put our trust and fears? Do we believe that God does have our very best interest at heart and that He totally ordains our footsteps, knowing what we need and don’t?
Undiluted faith for me is trusting God till it hurts because we no longer live a life of self, it’s selfless.
And if we are diluting our faith, what is it with?


Taste and see that the Lord is good and continue to thank Him for revealing Himself in miraculous ways, even to the persecuted that suffer greatly for this faith.

Shalom.