Where is your faith?

Luke 8:14 -35

Now that’s an interesting question. It sounds very “holier than thou” if you heard it from a friend or family member but Jesus was asking the question of his disciples.

Here is the back-story. Many of the twelve closest to Jesus were fisherman from Galilee. All of them were familiar with the lake and the way the weather would quickly turn. These guys had seen what happens when a boat is caught in one of these quick storms. I have family in Oklahoma. When the sky turns a certain color and the winds are a certain way they head to their tornado room because they know what is about to happen, a tornado is coming. They have seen homes completely destroyed. Lives placed in ruin due to the weather. The disciples understood similar things about the storms on the lake so they were probably busy doing what they could to preserve their own lives, they were in effect running to their “tornado room”, a very natural response to such an event.

Jesus had just made a very interesting proclamation, “those who hear the word and do it are my brothers and sisters.” He had told his disciples, let’s get in the boat and go to the other side. He did not tell them their was a storm coming He simply told them they were going to the other side. When God says you are going to get there we need to believe we are going to get there! There will be storms in our lives, there will be trouble, but God is faithful to His word and he will get us to the other side. His question about their faith was more like, “How many miracles have you seen?” How many lives have we touched? How many times have you seen the Father’s hand on My life? Yet you still don’t trust that no storm will stop me from completing my task in and through you too?

I have to ask you today, “Where is your faith?” Our faith can be in our understanding of the situation and its probable outcome as in the tornado and the tornado room or it can be in the one who says, “We are going to the other side!” Faith in faith doesn’t really work many have tried and their faith has become presumption. Our faith is to be placed in our heavenly Father and His Word. What has He spoken to you? Can you trust him for your future despite what you know about the economic or health forecast of your life? Can you trust Him today for your marriage despite the impossible situation you are walking through? Can you trust Him for your kids despite what you are seeing in their lives right now? Jesus says we are all going to the other side. We will go through storms along the way but rest assured we will get there!