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November 6, 2007
PROGRAMME OF BELIEF
Believest thou this?
John 11:26
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=joh+11:26&sr=1
Martha believed in the power at the disposal of Jesus Christ, she
believed that if He had been present He could have healed her
brother; she also believed that Jesus had a peculiar intimacy with
God and that whatever He asked of God, God would do; but she needed a
closer personal intimacy with Jesus. Martha's programme of belief had
its fulfilment in the future; Jesus led her on until her belief
became a personal possession, and then slowly emerged into a
particular inheritance - "Yea, Lord, I believe that Thou art the
Christ. . . "
Is there something like that in the Lord's dealings with you? Is
Jesus educating you into a personal intimacy with Himself? Let Him
press home His question to you - "Believest thou this?" What is your
ordeal of doubt? Have you come, like Martha, to some overwhelming
passage in your circumstances where your programme of belief is about
to emerge into a personal belief? This can never be until a personal
need arises out of a personal problem.
To believe is to commit. In the programme of mental belief I commit
myself, and abandon all that is not related to that commitment. In
personal belief I commit myself morally to this way of confidence and
refuse to compromise with any other; and in particular belief I
commit myself spiritually to Jesus Christ, and determine in that
thing to be dominated by the Lord alone.
When I stand face to face with Jesus Christ and He says to me -
"Believest thou this?" I find that faith is as natural as breathing,
and I am staggered that I was so stupid as not to trust Him before.
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