FAITH – Visualizing God’s Will

Visualizing what God intends to do in a given situation and acting in harmony with it.

 Have you ever pulled out a chair, inspecting it to see if it will hold you?  We generally do not think of this as we sit down.  Our faith is in the chair. We can visualize as it were that chair holding us up in the situation of us having dinner or visiting with friends.  Actually, we don’t worry about the chair we just sit.  We live by faith that the chair will uphold us.

How much better it is to have faith in an Almighty God that He will save us as well as keep us through our journey in life. When we come to that awareness of faith in Him, we can walk through life in harmony with God and with a peace so defined as to show others how great our God is. Our faith will be a living faith.  Psalms 89:1 gives us the perfect way to show our living faith.  “I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.” 

 When we can sing His mercies and talk of His faithfulness we are acting in harmony with God.

Noah Webster defines faith as: the assent of the mind or understanding to the truth of what God has revealed. Simply put; belief in the Scriptures.  How do we visualize what God would want us to do? We study and believe His Word.  The best way to believe His Word is to know His Word.  II Timothy 3:16 states it clearly.  “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:” 

If God’s Word is given to us under the inspiration of God, we can have faith in its veracity.  We can have faith that it is not only profitable to us but will reproof and correct us.  Furthermore, it gives us instruction in all holy living. Faith in His Word to guide us in this life.  Faith will hold us up like the chair did when we sat on it.

When we visual what the Bible wants us to do in any given situation of life, then we can act in harmony with God to fulfill His will.

O, for a faith that will not shrink,
Though pressed by ev­ery foe,
That will not trem­ble on the brink
Of po­ver­ty or woe!

That will not mur­mur nor com­plain
Beneath the chast­en­ing rod;
But in the hour of grief or pain,
Will lean up­on its God.

A faith that shines more bright and clear
When tem­pests rage witho­ut;
That when in dan­ger knows no fear;
In dark­ness feels no doubt.

That bears un­moved, the world’s dread frown
Nor heeds its scorn­ful smile;
That sin’s wild ocean can­not drown,
Nor its soft arts be­guile.

A faith that keeps the nar­row way
Till life’s last spark is fled,
And with a pure and heav­en­ly ray
Lights up a dy­ing bed.

Lord, give me such a faith as this,
And then, whate’er may come,
I’ll taste, e’en here, the hal­lowed bliss
Of an eter­nal home.
(William H. Bathurst)

Faith that rides with us from the moment we are saved until we reach heaven’s shores!

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1