O Ye of Little Faith


Life is not simple and neither is the way my faith works. I would say it is a blessing for the times I lay awake at night contemplating the words of the Bible , either spoken by God, Jesus Christ or one of His children, I wonder if They meant for us to only accept the words or look into there meanings.

I would compare it to standing on the shore of a sea and a ship in the far distance is passing the point where I am standing. I raise my looking glass to see what ship it is. It appears to be a foreign ship of different colors that I have not seen before but I adjust the focus and see men working on the deck that are friends of mine and understand where the ship came from. To me, knowing the men, helped me understand the origin of the ship, to another, the ship may help to identify the men aboard. This example, in itself, has become one of my basic beliefs in most spiritual experiences. The believer, thru Gods divine knowledge, receives His word thru, that which he understands.

I am new in faith, newly saved, newly baptized and a basic Bible believing Baptist. I am nothing special on this earth. I guess you could say a regular stiff that has laid his life; body and soul face down on the ground, as a servant, to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is an amazing feeling that I cannot compare to anything else in my life. I have had a yearning since I was young that would overtake me and couldn’t be satisfied by anything I did. It’s been a long and hard journey but the yearning is over.

I have heard that the burning, the newly saved feel, is something temporary that will age and develop into a different type of faith. I know for myself that isn’t something I want to happen unless taken by the Grace of God or something larger than a million beasts pulling on my soul and as I have thought about it, God wouldn’t want that burning light to be dimmed. He wouldn’t want us to settle and be comfortable in our faith thinking we are on a plateau and the other people that need saved will climb to us.

As every Christian should grow in their faith, belief and understanding of God’s word, my Holy Spirit has never let me down. When I was saved, turning my life over to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, I felt a great emptiness being filled. A week ago, I lay before God and asked for his help to surrender all of myself to the Holy Spirit that dwelled inside me, to allow Him to be my pilot and me only the passenger. I went to bed and thought about church the next day.

It was Sunday and I was feeling excited as always about our morning service. I was standing in our pew singing our first hymn when my eyes weld up and my voice couldn’t complete each line of the hymn. It was so over whelming until I realized what had occurred. It continued all thru the service and thru to today. Oh what power our Almighty God possesses. What love He fills our hearts with. He has removed my filter of pride and with it I have the ability to see and feel others around me.

One of my favorite and most read verses in the Bible is Matt. 6. 25-34. It helps me in times of stress, anxiety and feeling alone, something we as children of God deal with in this world. The verse I always think about is Matt. 6. 30 : Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? When I became anxious I would say to myself, “O ye of little faith”, to remind myself, that if my faith was strong enough, I wouldn’t have the anxiety I felt. I looked at it as a fault I had and because of it my life wasn’t as peaceful as it needed to be to serve our Lord. But the words “O ye of little faith” are much more than I thought.

When our Savior Jesus Christ died for us on the cross and ascended into Heaven, He left the Holy Ghost with us as our Comforter. Our bodies became His and the work on this earth, that needs to be completed, is by the hand of God thru the Holy Ghost that dwells in us. We, as children of God, walk the path that Jesus has begun for us, but we also aspire to obtain the pure qualities that He possesses. We as humans can never be perfect as Jesus was, but it is our daily and life long work to try to become as close to His grace, understanding, beliefs, compassions and faith in God that is possible for us. “O ye of little faith” isn’t a fault but a complement to us in our attempt each day to live our lives growing in faith like our Lord Jesus Christ. If we choose to live our lives this way the bright and burning light of the newly saved Christian will not diminish, it will only grow brighter.