God bless you greatly. How visible is your faith? Where is your faith in the midst of storms of the life?
Is it your faith, a faith that overcomes or a faith that Do you give up? What works testify to the genuine What is your faith? Next, we will reflect quickly in the following cases where our Lord Jesus Christ asked his disciples Where is your faith ?
, where he healed a man thanks to the faith he had seen, where he marveled thanks to the faith of a centurion and where he told a woman who suffered that his faith was great; In addition, we will also reflect about the importance of the works as evidence of a genuine faith. The first case in which we will reflect, we will know him by reading in the Gospel of Lucas cap. 8 verses 22 to 25 says: One day, he entered a boat with his disciples, and he said to them: Let's go to the another side of the lake.
And they left. But while They sailed, he fell asleep. And it was triggered a windstorm in the lake; and they were flooded and they were in danger.
And they came to him and woke him up, saying: Master, Master, we perish! Awakening him, he rebuked the wind and waves; and they ceased, and a bonanza was made. Y He said to them: Where is your faith?
And scared, they marveled, and said to each other: Who is this, that even to the winds and to the waters send, and obey him? When we are in the middle of the storms of life, it is easy to think that God has lost control and he has fallen asleep. We are often consumed by despair, when we think that we are at the mercy of the wind and of destiny and God does not come to help us.
God is sovereign and He controls everything, and it is here in these moments of storm where our faith must become visible and trust, since God is in the boat with us. Dangers will come and moments where we will feel that we will drown. In this way our Faith is put to the test.
If we go to Christ in those moments of danger, we must be sure that it will come to our Help. The best means of silencing our fears, is to present them at the feet of Christ; and not there is a storm that can not calm down in front of the power and authority of God. Where is your faith?
He asked him Lord to his disciples seeing them full of fear. There are 2 great reasons for the disciples not feel fear and make their faith visible at that moment. First.
They took with them in the boat to the Lord of the heavens and the earth. Second. They carried the sure word of Jesus who had told them: Let's go to the other side.
Remember that faith is faith when you put in God and in what He has said and if God He said that should give you security. In times of storms, it is where we are challenged to make our faith visible. The 2 case in which we will reflect will know reading in the Gospel of Mark chap.
2 verse 1 to 5 says: Jesus entered again in Capernaum after of some days; and it was heard that he was in home. 2E immediately many gathered, so that they did not fit even at the door; and preached the word to them. 3Then they came to him some bringing a paralytic, who was charged by four.
4 And since they could not get close to him because of the crowd, they discovered the roof where it was, and making an opening, they lowered the bed on which lay the paralytic. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, Son, your sins are forgiven. A visible faith is a faith that acts.
A faith visible, it is a faith that does not give up against the impediments; and a visible faith, it is a faith that is shown in favor of others. Our faith becomes visible, by identifying a need and then decidedly and insistently seek Divine help. Faith always finds a means, faith always find outlets, your faith and my faith, you must find the road to God.
Jesus was there to heal and forgive, there were obstacles, but the faith became visible when looking for the way to be in front of the Sir. Faith becomes visible when we search with persistence to the Lord until obtaining his blessing. When our faith becomes visible, God honor.
Remember that He is a rewarder of those who seek him. The third case in which we will reflect on we will know by reading in the Gospel of Matthew chap. 8 verses 5 to 10 says: Entering Jesus in Capernaum, came to him a centurion, begging him, and saying: Lord, my servant is prostrate at home, paralyzed, seriously tormented.
And Jesus said to him: I will go and heal him. The centurion replied and said: Lord, I am not worthy of you to enter under my roof; just say the word, and my servant will heal. Because I am also man under authority, and I have my orders soldiers and I say to this one: Go, and go; and to the other: Come, and come; and to my servant: Do this, and what make.
1 When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and He said to those who followed him: Truly I say to you, that not even in Israel have I found so much faith. Great admiration Jesus felt when he saw the faith of this man; But, why did you consider it that way? This man's faith was a sure faith, not he just believed that Jesus could heal his servant, but he could also heal distance; he believed that it was not necessary direct contact with the needy.
This it's called: Trusting faith. Faith will always be honored by God, be it active as in the case of the paralytic or confident as in this case. This man also believed that he could be cured with a word.
The Lord could heal him without medicines and without anything else, just with his Word. The centurion said: just Say the word and my servant will heal. With this this man recognized the authority of Christ and the power of his Word.
Hebrews chap. 4 verse 12 says that the Word of God is alive and effective. This is the kind of faith that God wants us to you and I have.
The four cases in which we will reflect on we will know by reading in the Gospel of Matthew chap. 15 verses 21 to 28 says: Leaving Jesus there, he went to the region of Tire and Sidon. And here is a woman Canaanite who had left that region he cried out, saying to him: Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me!
My daughter is badly tormented by a demon. But Jesus does not He answered the word. Then approaching His disciples, begged him, saying: Send her away, for it shouts after us.
He answering, He said: I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then she came and He prostrated himself before him, saying: Lord, help me! Responding, he said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and throw it to the dogs.
She said: Yes, Lord; but even the little dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the table your masters Then Jesus answered and said: Oh woman, great is your faith; ask yourself how do you want. And her daughter was healed since then. Let's analyze the following, when he claimed this woman to Jesus, the passage says that He does not He answered word.
Although the woman had great faith, Jesus He did not grant the blessing immediately. She cried out and for a moment the Lord did not He answered word, He decided to wait for give us a great lesson in faith. I ask.
Was not your prayer correct? The sentence was the correct one. Was not it a case of extreme need?
Of course it was. Was not his faith as fervent as it should be? He was intensely fervent.
Did not he have faith? Yes, his faith was great, he just had to get there to the point of becoming visible. There are situations that require proof of faith before a reward of faith.
However, after a silence the answer arrived of the Lord although apparently with a word rough from Him; but the faith of this woman led him to have great thoughts about Christ. Christ had told him about the children's bread, but she answered the following: Como you are the Generous Master of the table of the grace, no doubt there is plenty of bread in your table. There is such an abundance, that the children will not be harmed that the dogs be fed.
It seemed to this woman that the table of the Lord I was well stocked and that everything I needed for himself it was a crumb in comparison. His faith was unbreakable. Have great thoughts about the problems, it will lead us to despair.
Have great thoughts about God, it will lead us to peace. This woman's faith became visible through of wisdom, humility, meekness, patience and persistence; Ask yourself how you want. The Lord told the woman.
And finally we read Santiago cap. 2 verse 26 says: Because as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. True faith transforms our behavior and our thoughts.
If our life does not change, not really we believe in the truths we say we believe. Works of service with love do not replace faith, but if they are a test of your faith in Christ. True faith translates into obedience to God and what He has said and not only is in the following statement: "I believe in God".
We must have good works as fruits that demonstrate that our faith is genuine. There are those who do not need to say that they have faith, his works that speak of the faith they profess, They say it clearly. This is the kind of faith that God wants us to have.
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