A Devotional for such a time as this: - from "Into His presence (p. 211)," Stanley, C. F. (2000), Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers. Faith for Today SCRIPTURE READING: John 14:12–14 KEY VERSE: Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. In an emotionally taxing time, has someone ever told you to just “have faith”? It sounds like good advice, but the meaning is hazy. In her book Glorious Intruder, Joni Eareckson Tada talks about her struggle to come to grips with the real meaning of faith: “Have faith, Joni … one day it will all be better.” I can’t tell you how many times I heard words like those from sad-faced friends who clung to the guardrail of my hospital bed when I was first injured. … If being a woman of faith meant sitting around in my wheelchair longing for pie in the sky, I wanted no part of it. What a colossal misunderstanding! Faith, as the Bible defines it, is present-tense action. It’s taking God’s promises and acting on them today. This “right now” way of looking at God’s assurances is the stuff of which great people of faith are made … To them, faith is pulled out of the abstract, out of the nebulous nowhere, out of the syrupy twilight, and lived with concrete certainty in the here and now. Somewhere along the line I realized that. On some dark night in a sterile room the words of Hebrews 11:1 began to seep through my stubborn defenses. I began to realize that faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing that something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don’t see it. Lord, give me a faith that is sure of what I hope for. Give me faith that is real, even when I don’t understand. - via Logos 5
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