Almost every Sunday I ride my bicycle in to church so that we don’t have to drive the van there twice wasting gas and putting wear and tear on it just so I can work in the library. There is a new road complete with a bike path that passes very close to the church now. It’s about a 35 min. ride and there are two sets of sensored lights to go through, which means I usually have to press the switch to activate the green light and then wait.
Today, as I was getting to the first set of lights I heard the Lord say (to the best of my memory), “Go faster and you’ll make the light.” Yah, right, I thought because I’ve done this route enough that I knew with a car already waiting, there was no way I’d make the green in time even going faster. Ah, what a lack of faith I thought and decided I would just speed up. The light turned green, then red again, but what amazed me is another car appeared quickly making it turn green again, and because I had sped up, I made it through.
That’s when I realized I have two basic problems with my faith:
One- I continue to look at myself and not God. Of course I cannot speed up enough, I also can’t heal someone, make money appear out of nowhere, alter nature, raise the dead, etc, but there is a God who is more than able (Eph. ) to do all those things. I can choose to be obedient and to exercise what ‘little’ faith* I do have.
Two- I continue to look in the natural at things that seem impossible though this is contrary to scripture (2Cor. 5:7**). Just because I don’t know how a thing can or will ‘work out’ doesn’t mean it can’t. Obviously, I didn’t know it would be the second green light I’d get through, but God knew, and I just need to learn to trust Him completely…
In short-
It’s not our ‘great’ faith that will cause ‘great’ miracles to happen,
rather, it is our great God who can do great miracles in all our lives!
*And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you. Luke 17:6
**(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)