Applying Your Faith

APPLYING YOUR FAITH

Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”—John 20:29

Some people say they cannot have faith because they are practical. They need to know something is true before they can believe it. But we all apply faith every day. When you go to a restaurant, order a meal, and eat what they bring, that is faith. You are not sure if they followed all the sanitary guidelines they are supposed to follow. When you enter the restaurant you sit on the seat you are offered without a thought whether the chair has strength enough to carry you. You don’t know. So you apply faith.

When you go down to the pharmacy to buy medicine, you assume the little pills the pharmacist gives you can relieve you of your headache or fever. You even believe the pills she gave you are the right prescription. That is faith. When you have surgery and are put under anesthesia, you must put complete faith in the anesthesiologist, surgeons, and nurses. Or how about when you board a plane and taxi down the runway in that 747? Do you understand aerodynamics? Most of us wouldn’t. Yet we believe those pilots in the cockpit are hopefully not drunk or distracted. We hope they will get us safely to our destination.

The point is this: we apply faith each and every day. Faith is belief plus action. It is what we apply when we come to God. We act on His word. Is it amazing people refuse to put their faith in God? They can put faith, in a waiter, in a pharmacist, in a surgeon, and in a pilot but they won’t put their faith in God Almighty.

Prayer: By faith, pull down and destroy every stronghold of doubt and unbelief.

Scriptural Reading: John 20:24-29

24 Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.

25 The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.”

So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.”

26 And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!”

27 Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.”

28 And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”

29 Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

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Applying Your Faith