Do you trust me? Do you believe in my strength? Do you believe that I will never allow you to be harmed unnecessarily? Do you know that I am strong enough to catch you when you fall? Do you have faith in me?
I ‘m sure you would affirm that to me. Of course you do! Of course you know I love you, that I will protect you, remembering the times I piggy backed you and threw you into the air and caught you, that I am strong enough to bear your weight.
But when it’s dark, you close your eyes, when you know longer have your face turned on me, when you stand on the end of a chair, and I tell you I’m behind you, let go of yourself and fall backwards, you can’t see, but I tell you trust me and fall. You will lose faith, you will take back the words that you affirmed so strongly before. You will falter, you will doubt.
Son, we sing hymns every day, trumpeting how sweet it is to trust in Jesus, but when the dark valley comes, and God tells us to jump even tho we cannot see what is ahead, we doubt. We falter. We lose faith. Our faith without actions is dead. Our walk fail our talk. Learn this lesson now son, for the day will come when Someone greater than your earthly father will ask you to let go. Remember.
Be ye therefore doers of the word and not hearers only. Faith without works is dead. James 2:26
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