Here we are! Who has never turned to this chapter for help when hurting and for encouragement when wanting to give up? Probably the one who has never opened the Bible! We could stay in this chapter for the rest of our life and we would be okay, we would make it!
“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. 2 This is what the ancients were commended for.” (Hebrews 11 v 1-2)
Faith is being sure and it is to be certain. These two positions enable us to keep going!
We are sure that this season we are in is temporary. There is more. God has not done with you yet! We are moving through this moment. We know this not because of the cheap and flaky promises of the world but because of what God said He would do, we are sure He will and that is what we call hope. We are not wishing things be different but we have a biblical hope which has confidence in what God has said in His Word. We have His promises. He can do it. He said He would and we are sure.
We are certain that no matter how difficult life gets, He is with us. We might not see Him but we have assurance He is here. This is not dependent on us but again it is on His Word that He would never leave nor forsake us. The voices may be loud and the mountains may be huge but faith is the conviction that He will make a way because He is here right now.
Being sure and being certain is faith. It is how it always has been. The ancients held on to this and now it is our life-turn. Don’t drop that baton. Don’t turn back. Trust in God.
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