I lack FAITH.

Not the kind of FAITH that shows up when everything is going well, but the kind of FAITH that is necessary to pick up the backpack that I can not possibly carry and walk over the mountain with it.

Inside, I know that I don’t have the strength, or the heart, or the mindset required to carry out the assignment.

It is a testimony to my weakness and the idea that I carry anything good inside of me.  How could God have possibly chosen me … for anything?

But He did.

And He chose you too.

He chose us because He is good.

Hebrews 11 1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.2 This is what the ancients were commended for.  3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

God has made no secret of what the gospel is that He has given us.  We just pervert it.  We chose this world, and everything in it.  We chose the brokenness, and He sent Jesus to rescue us from it.  If you doubt that you are not responsible, just look inside.  For me, I can’t even obey for a week.  When the negative hits me I fold up like a chair, not able to show the character needed.

Look at Abraham:

Hebrews 11 8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.9 By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.10 For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

I love it:  “He was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.”  He left the great life for the good life.  Because the good life … is perfect.  And it is perfect … because God is there.

You can look the whole world over and find the great.  You can fill yourself up— with money, and power, and prestige, and all that you can grasp to your fingertips – and still be empty.  I’ve done it.  It doesn’t fill me and it doesn’t fill those I love.  It is fools gold.

Leave the Great Life.  Find the Good Life.  Thank you Jesus.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J