Faith in a Person

   "Are you debating whether to take a step in faith in Jesus or to wait until you can see how to do the thing yourself? Obey Him with glad reckless joy. When He says something and you begin to debate, it is because you have a conception of His honour which is not His honour. Are you loyal to Jesus or loyal to your notion of Him? Are you loyal to what He says, or are you trying to compromise with conceptions which never came from Him? "Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it."

   It is really not a step of faith when I can see how to do something myself. God gives us minds with which to think, and He does expect us to use them, but not at the time that He clearly wants us to go and do.

   My tendency, even when I sense a call to some service, is to look at how it can be done, try to see the end result and then go out and attempt it. My motives may be good, but I am not really honoring Jesus when I figure out the plan on my own. If the task really does not seem that practical, I surely must have "misunderstood" the call itself, right?

   Chambers says "Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way". Commitment to a Person and not to something that I can understand? How can a down-to-earth, pragmatic man ever do that? Not by looking inside of himself, that is for sure.

   Faith in a Person, I'd better meditate on that.