Don't Worry About The Bird In Your Hand, Listen To The Burning Bush

My Utmost For His Highest

 

Jesus said to her, "Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?" —John 11:40

 

“Every time you venture out in your life of faith, you will find something in your circumstances that, from a commonsense standpoint, will flatly contradict your faith. […] Can you trust Jesus Christ where your common sense cannot trust Him? Can you venture out with courage on the words of Jesus Christ, while the realities of your commonsense life continue to shout, “It’s all a lie”? When you are on the mountaintop, it’s easy to say, “Oh yes, I believe God can do it,” but you have to come down from the mountain to the demon-possessed valley and face the realities that scoff at your Mount-of-Transfiguration belief (see Luke 9:28-42). […] As soon as I say, “I believe ‘God shall supply all [my] need,’ ” the testing of my faith begins (Philippians 4:19). When my strength runs dry and my vision is blinded, will I endure this trial of my faith victoriously or will I turn back in defeat? Faith must be tested, because it can only become your intimate possession through conflict. What is challenging your faith right now?”  CHAMBERS

 

The natural thing for people is to not trust anyone, just themselves.  They have a natural view towards life and what it brings.  Trying to make their way the best they know how.  We very often want God to prove Himself before we will trust Him.  The thing is, that until we trust Him, we will not see proof. You may look at a chair and think if you sit in it, the chair will support your weight.  But until you actually sit in the chair, you will not know.  The fact will not be proven until you act on it.

 

(1 Corinthians 2:12-14) “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.”  We cannot understand spiritual truth with our natural ability to reason.  It requires the Spirit to be active in us to understand the things of God.  Trusting God.  Living by faith.  And that will require us to act in a way that defies natural reasoning.  There is a saying, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.  But we must not worry about what is in our hand and, instead, listen to and obey the Voice in the burning bush. CHARLEY