John 11:26
"Believest thou this"
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 Lazarus; she believed that Jesus had a peculiar intimacy with God and whatever He ask God to do , God would do; but she needed a closer personal intimacy with Jesus. Martha's ideal of belief would change in the near future; Jesus led her on until her belief had became a personal possession, and than 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 ideal 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 programed ideal 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.
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail
The Cross Life Ministry
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