May 5th Devo

Hebrews 11

1) Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of things we do not see.

What does faith that pleases God look like? Throughout Hebrews 11 it talks about faith, examples of faith, and people who lived with faith. I think about my life and wonder how I can display faith through my decisions, actions, and lifestyle. As believers we want to show god we trust in Him through how faithfully we follow him. We follow Jesus because we trust Him, we have confidence that what He says will come true.

Some people may look at 2 guys riding their bike across the country as "great acts of faith", personally it wasn't a hard decision for us to do something like this. We want to use it as an opportunity to share our faith with people and show them that they can use something they enjoy doing as an avenue to share their faith with people. My view of great acts of faith are those people who move their entire family to another country where preaching the gospel is against the law. They require God to intervene on a daily basis just to have something to eat, for protection, survival. To me that's what strong faith looks like.

Faith is having confidence that God will do what He said He would do.

This type of faith is tough because it's easy to have faith when things are going great, but hard when life's not so easy.

The Bible says:

Vs. 13- All these people (referring to the parts of the chapter where it mentions by name a few people) where still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised....

We have faith in God because of what He did for us on the cross not because of what He can give us or the easy life we want to life.

It's like training for an endurance event whether it's biking or running. You have days where you hurt, where it's hard to pedal or put one foot in front of the other, but if you don't quit and you push through those times then that's when you become a better athlete. It's in those tough times that God molds us into who He wants us to become. Those times require faith and evelops an unshakable faith tha tonly God can develop to help us push through in the future.

Through the mud and tough times of life is when God molds greatness.