Faith
While my daughter and I were witnessing at a County Fair, a man claiming
to be an atheist stopped to talk to my daughter. He said he didn't believe in having any faith
in anything at all. My daughter tried
giving him a couple examples of faith.
One was the wind, we can't see it, but we know it's there because we can
feel it and see the effects of it. The
example didn't seem to impact his thinking, but my daughter noticed
something. He kept calling her honey, so
it lead my daughter to realize he must
have a daughter. She asked him if he had
a daughter and the man said he did.
God gave her something to say that was a beautiful
illustration of faith. She asked,"
If your daughter were to be trapped in a burning building, yelling for help out a
window twenty or thirty feet high." " If you asked her to jump would you want
her to believe you?" He replied,
"Why sure I love my daughter and I'd want her to trust me to catch
her." Then my daughter asked,
" How would she know for sure you
would catch her?" "What would make her jump from a dangerous thirty feet
into your arms?" The man realized then, she would have to trust him, she would have to have faith in him.
She would have to trust him in order for her life to be
saved.
This is an excellent example of the imminent danger of eternal death facing all those who
are trapped and lost in their sins. Hell is burning every day, but we do not see
it's flames, we just know it exists because God tells us about it in his Word. People die every day, people go to hell every
day. When the bible talks about being
saved, God sees the burning flames of hell that are about to swallow them up at
the moment of their death. God doesn't
want anyone going to hell. He loves them
and wants them to trust him and knows it will take faith in everything God has
promised and as the father calling up to his daughter to jump out of the
burning building about to take her life.
She by faith in his love, will jump to be caught safely in his arms.
If a father of this world will love his daughter so, ...
Greater yet is the love of our heavenly Father, who longs to pull you to
eternal forgiveness and safety through
our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2:1
For by grace are
ye saved through faith;
and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God:
Susan Y Nikitenko
September 12th, 2014
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