#1≈ The Wisdom of Faith
This is all of my little script
The wisdom of our prime training tool is rarely understood. It helps to realize that the universe was created to train us to be friends of God. To produce the people the Lord wanted, He needed a training place where He could not normally be experienced by our five senses. The awesome power of His presence would force us to believe—that would make us useless friends.
He wants friends who can relate to Him on His level. But for that to work, we need to meet Him on a level where we can not see, feel, touch, smell, or taste Him. Yet, if we accept the Truth of who He is, believe the promises given to us, and pursue Him to get to know Him, then He can enable us to do that.
In fact it goes much further than that. In 1 John 3:2 CJB, we ran face first into the reality of what He is doing in us.
Dear friends, we are God’s children now; and it has not yet been made clear what we will become. We do know that when he appears, we will be like him; because we will see him as he really is.
Yes, that is what we are told. We will be like Him.
Try to get a hold of that in your little faith bucket. Yet, I know now that when I first see him in my spiritual body all He’ll have to say in my mind is, “Hi David. It’s me. I’m so glad we’re finally together.” I’ll recognize His voice and it will be good.
Remember we’ll be judging angels. They’ll be working for us. We’ll be one with the Messiah. It’s a stunning gift we’ve been given to be asked to be the Messiah’s helpmate.
I imagine that those who only know Him through quickened scripture will need a bit of an adjustment period. If you’re unprepared, it will be a lot like one who is born blind who can suddenly see. Remember, in the Gospels no one had the Holy Spirit living inside of them. Jesus was just a man to them. Being born again was not available yet. People were always asking Jesus what to do, and His response was consistently to have faith.
Another thing we need to realize is that God knew we would sin.
It was part of the plan. Scripture tells us in several places that Jesus was destined for his role before the foundation of the world. 1 Peter 1:20 is one. Ephesians 1:3–10 is another. As Messiah, Jesus knew about the cross before the universe was created through Him.
In one of my novels, Two men are wrestling with teaching about this. It’s expressed this way, “There is a real problem conceptually in dealing with a person who could only be apprehended by faith. How do you discuss a God who was not visible, yet intensely real? More than that, how is faith understood as a realistic necessity?” The training tool of faith is stunningly wise in its subtlety.
Just try to imagine a better training tool for a man or a woman. We are all so deeply involved with the soul and the flesh, that not being able to see and feel God just seems like foolishness before we’re reborn.
Even worse is the idea that we can be set free to see the Truth only because Jesus came and died for us on the cross. That’s a horrible tortuous method of execution which leaves the body basically intact. Yet, it enables us [by faith] to access the power and freedom of a son or daughter of •I am•.
Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” John 6: 28 & 29 RSV
I’m convinced that our position in the new creation is determined by what we are each designed to be. By the faith and character we let Him build in us during our life here in this creation, we can get a solid glimpse of who we are going to be. Remember He is working within us to make us both to make us willing and to make us able. Philippians 2:13
Our Messiah is shaping us into what we are designed to be as part of His helpmate. We’re so blind here that seeing what we will be would only get in the way. We can only accept it by faith—for now.
I have seen that He has trained me in several unique ways which I can sort of understand, but I can’t explain. Words are not sufficient, at this point. But my faith has a solid hold on these things. But many things apply to us all.
It’s always new every morning.
In a very real way, I have learned to gather the faith needed to start the day, every morning. Yesterday’s faith is but a memory. It can no longer be directly sensed. I need fresh faith, for today’s work. This is part of the wisdom of faith.
Faith is something you must chose to do—every day
“Give us this day our daily bread” is another part of the same Truth. A major portion of our sin nature—Adam and Eve’s original sin of mankind—is that we are cut off from being able to see and touch Him. I can’t tell you how often I tell Jesus that I can’t hardly wait until we can walk and talk in the garden again.
Remember that day you were born again. Can you recall how you felt, what you experienced, and all of that? If you’re like me, I can tell the tale. But the feelings are just memories. I can say, “I remember that I was overwhelmed, completely convinced of the reality of what I had experienced.” It builds my faith to give my testimony. But the intense reality of the experience is just a memory. Otherwise it would not be faith.
I experience little things like that every day. But I cannot share them beyond the results of what I experienced. It used to seriously bother me, that I could not share those things. But then the Holy Spirit showed me how.
I can ask for the anointing before I share it
Then the Lord can use my memories to give a fresh dose of faith to those I share with. He can make my memory touch another person with His power. It’s all about His power. He can take our testimony and make it work for others.
When He does that, I have no idea it is happening. I only find out through what they share afterwards—if they say anything. That is what is happening now. Soon I will record this in a podcast. I will have no idea if it is effective or not. I’ve written out a script of sorts. But I have no idea how he’ll guide me and what he will change as I go through the process.
All I can do is get myself cleaned up—then I ask for the anointing. All I can do is speak it out in faith. I’ll do that the best I can. I need to remain as loose as possible so He can touch me to add little things that will enable Him to touch each listener in a different manner—personalized for each one of them. That’s what teaching under the anointing is all about.
But there is no audience participation in this process. I’m proceeding in faith—striving to hear Him as I talk it out. It’s between Him and me. The results are up to Him. It’s about my faith in His calling and His power. He gave me the idea and approved the plan. I’m just an obedient bond servant, using my experiences to provide the raw content that He can use for His purposes. That’s what He has given me to do.
We are witnesses, as legally defined
I can only testify to what He has done: in me, through me, or to me.
I cannot testify about what happened to someone else: other than what I saw or heard them say or do.
My opinions might be entertaining: but they are rarely useful.
I cannot control or predict what your reaction will be to my testimony: All I can do is focus on Truth and accuracy, trusting Him to fill my mouth with something helpful.
All of that is up to the Lord: and He gets the glory for it
I got up about 4:00 am because my mind was so busy I couldn’t sleep. It was about something else—a new plan in the future. But once I got that taken care of, the Lord gave me this idea. I pray it is helpful.
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