I wonder how often I approach life and faith believing “only God” can do a certain thing? …or believing “God wouldn’t/couldn’t” – like, God wouldn’t heal…? We want miracles to happen but we don’t expect them to. How often, like the Pharisees, do I decide for God what God will and won’t do…? When I do this, I know I am making God after my own image thinking God sees justice and right/wrong the same way I do. When I do this, putting God in my box, it sure makes me more comfortable… but it limits the Spirit of God working through me. How often do I bypass “bold belief” and settle instead for the limits I’m comfortable with? …Which is simpler? Which is Christ calling me to live?
I wonder, also, when Jesus said to me “come along with me”, did I “walk away from everything” to follow Jesus as Levi did? On this journey of faith, am I following Christ with the best that I have to offer, or am I settling for doing or being “good enough”? To answer honestly is to confess that too often I offer God comfort-faith not bold-belief. And I know that means that instead of walking this journey with God – dependent upon God and allowing God to lead – in those times of “comfort-faith” I am asking God to walk with me, to let me dictate the path… God calls all of us to live not out of a sense of scarcity, but to live in the abundance of God’s love – so how do I move from comfort-faith to living bold-belief? …Which is simpler? Which is Christ calling me to live?
What do you think? In what ways did this passage of Scripture speak to you?
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