Faith – have you ever really thought about it? Do you have enough of it? How much is enough?
Romans 12:3 says “God has given me His loving-favor. This helps me write these things to you. I ask each one of you not to think more of himself than he should think. Instead, think in the right way toward yourself by the faith God has given you.”
We are instructed not to think of ourselves too highly or to pride ourselves in our accomplishments. Every good thing we have is a gift that God has given us so we shouldn’t take credit for it or consider ourselves better than others.
In another version this verse says
God has given every believer “THE” measure of faith. Not a measure; if it were “a” measure then maybe you would get a cupful of faith and I would only get 1/2 a cup. We have all received “THE” measure of faith. So regardless of the size of the measure, we all receive the same.
We receive enough faith for each and every circumstance.
Jesus taught his disciples if they had faith like a mustard seed they would be able to move mountains Paul continues on with that thought in I Corinthians 13 where he says if we have the faith to move mountains and have not love it profits us nothing.
He also says later in Galatians 5:6 that faith works by love; so if our faith isn’t working, we should check our love walk.
Faith is one of the fruit of the spirit that we have been given. We need to use what God has given us and use it motivated by love, never selfishness. Jesus was moved with compassion and miracles happened. It will work the same in our life.
If we take “THE” measure of faith today we can believe God to use us to move mountains – mountains in our life and in the lives of others. This word the denotes an absolute or a precise measure.
(Just a side note here. Over the next few days we will be looking at some absolutes in Scripture, things that never change. Things that are preceded by the words “the, always, never, all”.)
We are His ambassadors here on earth and we’ve been given the responsibility to effect a change. He’s given us “the” tools.
We need to use what we’ve been given. We have enough!