Chambers talks today about real faith in this way:
"Be relentless and hard on yourself if you are in the habit of talking about the experiences you have had. Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God's revealed truth is the only faith there is."
I read the lines of his devotional over quite a few times this morning and thought about what has given me faith, any kind of faith.
It is very easy to rely on the experiences I have had to show me what faith has produced in my life. If I point to something that has happened and use it as an example of faith, is that all that bad? Maybe it is not bad in itself, but is it the best thing to look to?
I looked back this morning to the first few blogs I had written in February of this year. There were many questions that I threw out there. Some questions were just rhetorical, and I knew what the answer was. Some were questions of where I was spiritually in God's sight. Some were profound, some were silly, but most came back to the haunting question, Do I Really Know God?
Even at this special time of the year, do I really know what it is all about? Can I fathom the whole idea of incarnation? Is it real to me or just tradition?
It is easy to get caught up in the emotion of the season, but if I strip that all away, what is left?
GOD and only GOD
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