Faith is an amazing thing. We hear it spoken of through the Bible in many different ways. We often talk about having faith in God but let’s be really honest – that is easier said than done, not because He is untrustworthy or that He has let us down, but because He sees what we can’t.

I remember writing this a few years ago – there is often a gap between Gods view and our view. What we fill that gap with determines how much of His view we can access. This is where faith lives. I still believe that to be very true today.

I am reading through Acts and I have reached the part where Paul has been placed on a boat and sent to Rome. On the trip the boat hits trouble and it seems like they are all going to be lost at sea and perish. In the middle of their worrying Paul pipes up and says this;

……keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will happen just as he told me. Acts 27:25

This is a great example of when our view seems so dark but Paul chooses to see it how God told him it would happen. It reminds me of a story I heard in the Bible in one year app.

During World War II, in the terrible days of the Blitz, a father, holding his small son by the hand, ran from a building that had been struck by a bomb. In the front yard was a shell hole. Seeking shelter as quickly as possible, the father jumped into the hole and held up his arms for his son to follow. Terrified, yet hearing his father’s voice telling him to jump, the boy replied, ‘I can’t see you!’ The father called to the silhouette of his son, ‘But I can see you. Jump!’ The boy jumped, because he trusted his father. In other words, he loved him, he believed in him, he trusted him and he had confidence in him.

I’m asking myself the hard question of whether I have faith in what the Father said or just in what I see. It is so tricky but it is one worth wrestling with because in the midst of it we will find breakthrough!