A Chair in My House

Pastor Jeffrey Smith 

We live most of our lives navigating only off what we see, what we feel, and what we experienced. Yet the Bible comes at it from a different angle in 2 Corinthians 5:7 when Paul writes, “For we walk by faith, not by sight.”

Our faith is how we are to live and it makes us who we are, but what is faith? Is it just believing? The biblical definition of faith means believing and trusting. 

The idea is like a chair in my house. I believe that there is a chair, but do I trust the chair? I can show my trust in the chair when I sit in the chair. If that chair looks flimsy, I won’t sit in it. Why? Because while I believe it is a chair, I don't trust the chair. 

A lot of people look at God's promises like that chair. They say, “Yes, I see the hand of God in my surroundings. I believe in God.” Yet it is one thing to believe God exists, but it's another thing to trust God.  

We have been called to live a life of faith. Faith is believing and trusting in God. Today, I want to challenge us all with the idea that maybe we are not believing and trusting God the way we possibly could.

Let’s start our summer off living a life of faith, believing and trusting Him for everything in our lives. If we think that we need to work hard to get more faith, we're missing the idea. Faith doesn't come out of great effort. Faith comes out of great surrender. 

We can stop working so hard to get more faith and start surrendering more to the Lord. It's not like other things where we just see it and do it. We’ve got to see it a different way. We’ve got to believe in a different way. I want us to live a successful kingdom life this year, and we can only do it when we are living by faith, believing and trusting in God.

2 Corinthians 4:18, “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”