Borrowing Faith
I’m starting to believe that God lovingly pushes us to the very edge, the very limit of our faith so that we are forced to borrow Faith from Him. This is the reality that we have begun living in ever since we said yes to God’s idea for this Church.
We are living at a level of Faith in God these days that we have never lived at before in our entire lives…and yet…it still doesn’t feel like enough. When we look at all that has to happen each day for Soul City Church to simply get off the ground, we are floored and overwhelmed. We simply don’t see a way to raise all the money we have to raise through the BE Campaign. We simply don’t see a way that we are going to be able to sell our house. We simply don’t see a way that we are going to find a home in the city where our family can thrive. We simply don’t see a way for all those moving to Chicago with us to start Soul City to be able work through all these exact same details in THIER lives. We simply don’t see a way.
But we live by faith, not by what we see. ((2 cor. 5:7))
And that is exactly where OUR faith comes to an end and GOD’s faith steps in. I don’t know how it all works in God’s economy, but it seems like the very faith it requires to believe IN can only come FROM him. He is the one who gives me the faith to actually believe in him at all. And every time my faith grows weak and my sight grows strong, I am invited back to his office to take out another loan. To borrow against my lack of faith. To leverage my life as collateral. To take one more step forward, following him. This is how God grows our faith, by planting the very seed himself.
This is where we’re living these days. This is where we’ve ALL been invited by God to live. No matter what we see, this is the faith God longs to give us.
So. Where is God lovingly pushing you to Borrow Faith from Him these days?
