The crux of our faith hinges upon our steady reliance upon the hope we
have in Christ Jesus. Too often we hold back our belief in God, that He
is who He says He is, will do what He says He will do, and that we are
who He says that we are, and we hold back our trust and confidence and
reliance upon Him until we see it manifest through the details and
circumstances of our lives. The reality is as God states in His word
that the whole of our lives (if we are sons and daughters of Him) has
been made subject to Christ and His authority. What we have entrusted to
him, he faithfully, continually, perfectly, and eternally will keep and
Lord over. He faithfully, continually, perfectly and eternally will
lead you and answer you when you call. Tell that to your life! Hold on
to Him and cling to these truths before you see how it will work out!
Then the peace and joy of Christ can rule over your hearts and emotions
and you will learn to be steadied IN the storms of life instead of only
being steadied when the difficulty is over. Heathens can be relieved
when storms are over but We were made to be victorious in the storms!
Victorious over fear of death, loss, ruin, etc... our hearts lie and
tell us we have to have something, something other than Him to feel
safe, to feel secure, to be at peace, to be happy, and the reality is
truly, at the core of our beings and all the needs we perceive we have
is our truest need for Him.. Him who satisfies all things! In Christ, we
have freedom from all our hearts "have-to-haves." He longs to make us
firm in our INNER-MAN. Immoveable inwardly not in the sense that we wont
feel the difficulties of life, not that we wont taste hardship, pain,
loss, fear, (Jesus was a man of sorrows acquainted with grief) but that
it won't MASTER over us and be the rudder for our life and faith. Be
honest about your struggle to believe, confess your belief, and then run
to Christ to ask for help in your unbelief!
"But Christ (the Messiah) was faithful over His [own Father’s] house as a Son [and Master of it]. And it is we who are [now members] of this house, if we hold fast and firm to the end our joyful and exultant confidence and sense of triumph in our hope [in Christ]. Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts, as [happened] in the rebellion [of Israel] and their provocation and embitterment [of Me] in the day of testing in the wilderness, Where your fathers tried [My patience] and tested [My forbearance] and found I stood their test, and they saw My works for forty years. And so I was provoked (displeased and sorely grieved) with that generation, and said, They always err and are led astray in their hearts, and they have not perceived or recognized My ways and become progressively better and more experimentally and intimately acquainted with them. Accordingly, I swore in My wrath and indignation, They shall not enter into My rest. [Therefore beware] brethren, take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to cleave to, trust in, and rely on Him], leading you to turn away and desert or stand aloof from the living God. But instead warn (admonish, urge, and encourage) one another every day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you may be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [by the fraudulence, the stratagem, the trickery which the delusive glamor of his sin may play on him]. For we have become fellows with Christ (the Messiah) and share in all He has for us, if only we hold our first newborn confidence and original assured expectation [in virtue of which we are believers] firm and unshaken to the end. Then while it is [still] called Today, if you would hear His voice and when you hear it, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion [in the desert, when the people provoked and irritated and embittered God against them]. So we see that they were not able to enter [into His rest], because of their unwillingness to adhere to and trust in and rely on God [unbelief had shut them out]. (Hebrews 3:6-15, 19 AMP)
"But Christ (the Messiah) was faithful over His [own Father’s] house as a Son [and Master of it]. And it is we who are [now members] of this house, if we hold fast and firm to the end our joyful and exultant confidence and sense of triumph in our hope [in Christ]. Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts, as [happened] in the rebellion [of Israel] and their provocation and embitterment [of Me] in the day of testing in the wilderness, Where your fathers tried [My patience] and tested [My forbearance] and found I stood their test, and they saw My works for forty years. And so I was provoked (displeased and sorely grieved) with that generation, and said, They always err and are led astray in their hearts, and they have not perceived or recognized My ways and become progressively better and more experimentally and intimately acquainted with them. Accordingly, I swore in My wrath and indignation, They shall not enter into My rest. [Therefore beware] brethren, take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to cleave to, trust in, and rely on Him], leading you to turn away and desert or stand aloof from the living God. But instead warn (admonish, urge, and encourage) one another every day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you may be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [by the fraudulence, the stratagem, the trickery which the delusive glamor of his sin may play on him]. For we have become fellows with Christ (the Messiah) and share in all He has for us, if only we hold our first newborn confidence and original assured expectation [in virtue of which we are believers] firm and unshaken to the end. Then while it is [still] called Today, if you would hear His voice and when you hear it, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion [in the desert, when the people provoked and irritated and embittered God against them]. So we see that they were not able to enter [into His rest], because of their unwillingness to adhere to and trust in and rely on God [unbelief had shut them out]. (Hebrews 3:6-15, 19 AMP)
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