QUESTION: “WHAT IS TRUE FAITH?”

 ANSWER: “IT’S LIKE A LETTER”

 EXPLANATION:

The title is about true faith. There are varying degrees of faith, but are they really faith?

Many people call themselves Christians … but are they?

True faith writes a letter and then drops it in the Post Office box … and then LETS IT GO!

Untrusting people hang onto a corner of the envelope and never let it go. It’s like they have attached an invisible thread and can pull the letter out of the box again. Indeed, they can wind the letter back in from its final destination. They haven’t let the letter go!

They are always wondering whether an answer will come … and perhaps it never does.

No doubt Dear Reader, you may have written a letter in time past but haven’t posted it, because you may have some doubt or uncertainty about what you have written … or indeed have you got the right address. And so you haven’t mailed it.

What that means is you haven’t done anybody any good yet … especially yourself. In fact, it just sits there week after week on the desk (or in your mind), and is like ‘rust’ of the mind as it just frets itself stupid with worry and “What if …” and so on.

The letter will never do anybody any good until you cut that invisible cord and let the letter go out of your hands and trust the postman and the mail service.

THE KEY IS TO COMMIT.
Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. Psalm 37:5  

It’s like a marriage between a man and his wife, if they don’t commit to the marriage it won’t work. So the first step, before the Lord will work, is to commit. Faith will never work unless we commit.

Faith is a receiving and believing that God will work things out … but first we have to write the letter of faith!

Now we may believe and commit, but until we let go, we will not get the blessings that only the Lord can give. If you are still hanging onto that letter, how can God work?

A story
Many years ago, there was a man and his wife intensely burdened about the salvation condition of their son … was he saved? If so why was he living the way he was and so on.

The situation was this:
1. They were giving themselves too much trouble
2. They had prayed for the son
3. They had committed him to God
4. But they continued to pull on that invisible cord of their prayer letter to the Lord.
5, They kept on worrying about the outcome and the result they wanted.

They kept on feeling anxious about their son … and wouldn’t let God work on their prayers. They would not let go.

THERE ARE TWO COMMANDS
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 1 Peter 5:7

QUESTION?
If we get rid of our burdens to another, can they continue to press in on us?
If we bring them away with us, having laid them at the feet of God the Father on his Throne of Grace, it is plainly evident we did not leave them there!

 DEAR READER
Make the following a test of your prayers.

 If after committing anything to God, you can come away and have your mind no more sad and your heart no more anxious … that will be proof that you have prayed with faith.

But if you bring away your burden, you can conclude … you did not pray in or with faith.

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Harley Hitchcock

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