It feels like Jesus came down
from heaven to preach a wonderful, heart moving message in the church today. It’s always been inspiring to see and listened
once again Kuya Eric Sismaet preached the Word of God.
The stories of Jairus and the Bleeding Woman in Matthew
5:21-43, depicts how their faith move them to come to Jesus despite the
oppositions.
Jairus upon learning that his daughter is very ill,
still came to Jesus despite the fact that many had told him to not bother Jesus anymore
with his request to heal his daughter, but moved by his faith he believed that
Jesus can do something to heal his daughter. Jairus was reassured by what Jesus
said “Don’t be afraid just believed.”
The bleeding woman touch Jesus
cloak, despite the crowd that surrounds Him, her faith didn’t go
unnoticed..that it almost took Jesus power to be gone out from him. The preacher
in his own words said “May humawak kay Jesus na matindi ang paniniwala.” The
Bleeding Woman’s fear was overcome by her faith and because of her faith she
was healed.
Jairus and the Bleeding Woman’s
life was tested, yet their struggles strengthen them to keep looking up to
Jesus. In the words of the preacher “Struggles
are important to make us see God more, to make us realize our need for God.”
In Genesis 12:1-5, God commanded
Abraham to leave his country, his people and his father’s household and go to
an uncertain place which was only labeled by God as a Promised Land. Imagined an old man like Abraham who was 75
years old when God commanded him then, Abraham has the option to complain to
God , he may chose to give God a hundreds of excuses not to listen to what God
said, but Abraham have to hear His voice,
He listened to God without questions.
Our life will be challenged, it
will be tested, sometimes God takes away everything which means taking us away from our comfort
zones and yet God promised that He will be with us always. Our challenges, will help us to go deeper in our faith and our convictions.
In Hebrews 11:8-10 God doesn’t
need a perfect faith, a huge faith for us to go back to him, in fact in the
Bible he illustrated a mustard kind of faith. It is a simple faith that trust God. Trusting his goodness to give to us what is
best. It is only by faith that Abraham
obeyed and believed God. It is by faith
that Abraham heeded to God’s call, he lived out to the purpose of God in His
life.
Faith is something that enable us
to do untiringly what God had called us to do, when we lose our purpose on why
we do things especially those things that matters to God we end up having an
attitude of apathy. Kuya Eric quoted
what his dear wife said “the absence of purpose is worst than satisfying your
own self.”
In Genesis 12:4 we can see how
Abraham obeyed God wholeheartedly, God didn’t explain the reasons why He commanded
Abraham to leave his country, and yet Abraham obeyed God. Obey God even we didn’t know the reasons why He say so, obey God
even when it means making decisions that will hurt us. Abraham example should
inspire us that obeying God is the very reason of our faithfulness and love for
Him.
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