| June's Virtue: FAITH: Trusting in what you can't see because of what you can see. Bible Memory Verse: “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” Hebrews 11:1, NIV |
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Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s …
invisible? Wait. What? If God is as big and powerful as we
say He is, you should at least be able to see Him, right?
Well, that’s where our virtue of the month comes in. We
define faith this way: (1) Faith is trusting in what you can’t
see because of what you CAN see. So, no, we can’t see God,
but (2) He provides an amazing amount of evidence of His
existence. Just look! Up in the sky! Or at the mountains and
rivers and stars and rainbows and trees and platypuses and
thumbprints ... well, you get the point. (3) God could’ve made
Himself known in even more obvious ways so there would
be no question that He’s God. Instead, He wants us to see
the evidence for ourselves and choose to trust in Him. (4)
As our faith strengthens, we are compelled to put more of
ourselves in God’s enormous, creative hands. Then He can
use us to impact and influence our world. All month long, we’ll
be looking at the tumultuous lives of the early Christian
church and how the writer of Hebrews used the history of
the world to help build their faith.
invisible? Wait. What? If God is as big and powerful as we
say He is, you should at least be able to see Him, right?
Well, that’s where our virtue of the month comes in. We
define faith this way: (1) Faith is trusting in what you can’t
see because of what you CAN see. So, no, we can’t see God,
but (2) He provides an amazing amount of evidence of His
existence. Just look! Up in the sky! Or at the mountains and
rivers and stars and rainbows and trees and platypuses and
thumbprints ... well, you get the point. (3) God could’ve made
Himself known in even more obvious ways so there would
be no question that He’s God. Instead, He wants us to see
the evidence for ourselves and choose to trust in Him. (4)
As our faith strengthens, we are compelled to put more of
ourselves in God’s enormous, creative hands. Then He can
use us to impact and influence our world. All month long, we’ll
be looking at the tumultuous lives of the early Christian
church and how the writer of Hebrews used the history of
the world to help build their faith.
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