As I ponder in my mind I ask myself this question, " What if I didn't have faith?" Notice I didn't say my faith. So let me make it clear I don't mean my denomination or Christian affliation. I mean what if I didn't or couldn't trust in something? What if the God I serve only allowed me to see the natural? What if my mind only accepted the logical? What if my flesh could only receive the physical? What if I didn't have FAITH????
A couple of days ago I was talking to a parent and she explained to me that her child will be graduating this year. Now me with my love of children got excited, my first question was what does she want to do? She says she wants to be a doctor!!! Now I am supper hyped? Before I could go any further she said I am trying to talk her out of it. I look puzzled! I said "for real?" She said oh yes we don't have money for her to be no doctor she should be a nurse or something with only four years. I said is that faith? Now she looked puzzled. I commenced to telling her the story of Alex and Aleisha going to college last year.
See Alex got a scholarship and while Aleisha got one it wasn't to the school she wanted to go to. So I said Aleisha God will make a way. Now I told my sister when she was a baby if she wanted to go to school I would pay for it, not knowing how much it would cost! LOL! Well here comes the day... two kids in college, two tuition and quite frankly no money. I never stopped praying and I never stopped having faith. See I asked God for several signs' that I was doing His will with my children and with each one He would come through. One of those signs was that they would be accepted in the college of their choice, the next was a new and larger contract, and the next was that they would get scholarships. Well now here comes my dilema, Alex got one but Aleisha didn't at least not at Tuskegee. What was God saying?
Well I went back to my knees and I said Lord Faith is the substance of things hoped for (I was hoping for a scholarship) and the evidence of things not seen (but I didn't see evidence of my faith)!!! So here I go getting in the cars loading up two cars and headed to Tuskegee knowing I didn't have 8k a month to pay for a student. But Faith, But God....I could give you every but in the world because the reality of the matter said one thing, man said another thing but God had it all in his hands.
In faith I packed my son and sister up; In faith I drove to Tuskegee; In faith I walked on Tuskegee Campus; In faith I went to the kids dorm rooms knowing that I didn't have the money, but GOD!!! When I got to the campus I was called to a Dean's office he said I need to talk to your students. He handed them two more scholarships! When we left his office in tears my balance for two kids went from almost 10K a month to 1200.00 a month for the both! Now I am not going to lie I shouted all across Tuskegee University Campus. I just kept telling everybody how good God was and is. I stopped a lady who was frustrated and told her do you believe in God she said yes well girl don't you take your baby home you go right back in there. While on your knees to Christ asking him to intercede in your childs behalf. See,I don't know who shouted more, my husband, my mom, my kids or me. Yet we were some shouting fouls!!!! God SHOWED OUT, WHY BECAUSE OF THE EVIDENCE NOT SEEN!!!
See I don't know any one else but God. I can't rely on anyone else but him and I could not exsist if I didn't have faith that he would pull me through! It is hard some times; to see your family in disarray, to see your finances fall short, to see your relationships not where you feel they should be, BUT GOD!! Right now I am walking in pure faith that God will answer a prayer for me, but the evidence is just not there, but GOD! God doesn't work in our Natural situations He must work in the spiritual realm to get his desired natural reaction. WOW... I just witnessed to myself!
Faith is for the faithful not the faithless! It is so hard to be faithful when there is no evidence that what you are believing God to do is there. But God is an Evidence maker!!! Faithfulness is one of the hardest act that we as Christian must exemplfy! The song writer says we are not a natural being living a spiritual experience, but we are a spiritual being living this natural experience. He is saying to stop looking at the Facts or reality of a situation, you must always deal with Christ on a spiritual level because when you don't you won't be able to experience the evidence not seen!!!
My mommy says it like this Fact says one thing, reality says another but God says.......now you fill in the blank!!
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