Faith means believing without seeing

[W]e hear, “I can’t be a Christian because I can’t believe in the virgin birth,”

as though faith were something which lay within the realm of verification.

If it can be verified, we don’t need faith.

~~Madeleine L’Engle

This morning’s prayer and meditation for Sally’s healing comes from Take Heart, Oh God: Riches from the Greatest Christian Women Writers of All Time.

Faith means believing without seeing. If we can see it, verify it, explain it, and make perfect sense of it, we don’t need faith. Faith, by its very definition, requires us to trust in something we don’t understand.

Much of Scripture requires us to take that step. Virgin birth? Unbelievable. Calming the sea? Can’t be done. Raising people from the dead? Impossible. And so some turn away and decide that they can’t be Christians then, in reality, those questions are that first step. Knowing that something is unbelievable or impossible means that a higher power has to be involved. That knowledge leads to a choice. Are we willing to believe the unbelievable? Are we willing to have faith?

You may never understand the reason for some events of life on this side of heaven. But God is pleased when you have faith in him even when you can’t understand.

Prayer for Meditation

Lord, may I see through the eyes of faith.

Scripture for Meditation

Then Jesus told him, “You believe because you have seen me. Blessed are those who haven’t seen me and believe anyway.” John 20:29

Music for Meditation

I Understand 

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