The Church Sign

There are many neat sayings that go on church signs.

I saw one this morning that I had seen before and maybe you have, too, but because of its relevance to the recent topic of faith, I thought I'd share it with you.

"Belief thinks God can. Faith knows God will."

I wrote the other day that faith is demonstrated by action. And I stand by that. I just want to emphasize that sometimes that action must be mental.

In the case of our national situation right now, the most important action we can take to demonstrate our faith that "God will" act on our behalf to make good on His promise that "all things work together for good" is the mental action of changing our attitudes and our faces.

Think about it. A faithless attitude and the sad face that goes with it is going to go from person to person like a wildfire goes from tree to tree until everybody is down-in-the-mouth about our nation. And the more down-in-the-mouth we feel, the more down-in-the-mouth we act and the situation we would like to get better gets worse because we have a faithless attitude and look like it wherever we go.

When we change our attitude from one of believing "God can" to one of knowing that "God will" and put a look of joyful confidence and expectation on our faces, that attitude then spreads from person to person, maybe not as quickly as the wildfire example above because people seem to love bad news far more than good news, but it will spread and the situation we want to get better actually does get better.

A good dose of positive faith in God that He will, rather than that He can, will go a long way toward improving the health of our nation in every way, not just economically.

How about this? Apply these verses to everything in your life for a few days and see if your outlook doesn't improve and see if your improved outlook doesn't improve the outlooks of others.

Here are the verses. Proverbs 3:5-6, KJV; "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths."

The world might just be amazed at what a change in attitude, reflected on our faces, can accomplish.

You already believe He can. Will you now know that He will?

Pray, please. For revival. Pray for others who will join you in prayer. Seek God. He will be there to hear you.

In His Love
Walter