Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Finish this sentence; How can God . . . . ?

I was relating to my accountability partner some of the things that I see as issues of faith. People for some reason or another tend to try to put God in a box so that they can peek in and see He is real. I have witnessed this behavior in men of faith that have walked with God for decades.

Matthew 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Their assertion is that they have faith, therefor they should be able to do anything. They try and fail. Since they believed the scriptures and nothing happened, then God has limits. Well that is false thinking. Their first failure was in understanding faith. If you fail to understand the principles of faith, everything that follows fails.

Faith will not violate the will of God. Faith comes from God and is subject to God just as we are subject to God. We live by faith in Christ, the perfect servant, who did nothing against the will of the Father. Is it so hard to understand that many of those “things” we try to do “by faith” are not the will of God.

We live by faith. God lives by will. God will not violate His character, His identity, nor His will in favor of our will.

On the humanistic side of our understanding, I have witnessed that we often fuss over understanding the most trivial matters. Doing that wastes time that could be better spent on important matters, like sharing the gospel.

Matthew 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

Hidden within many powerful sayings in Matthew 11 is this precious gem. Did you find it or was it hidden from you? This verse points to one of the most profound scriptures in the New Testament and yet we look on both verses as a thing to be taken for granted because we understand so little in how they relate to us specifically.

Luke 13:27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.

Do you see it? No? Let me clear the air.

John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Do you see it? Is this plain enough? No? Then look for the rare air.

James 4:5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

Plain English please.

I desire to know God the Father thru the scriptures, but I do not know Him. I know His character, His reputation, His desire, perhaps even His will, but that is not God the Father.

I desire to know Jesus thru the scriptures but I do not know Jesus. I know His character, I know His works, I know His sacrifice, I know His truths, I know His promises, but that is not Jesus.

Having accepted Jesus Christ as the Lord of my live resulted in receiving the Holy Spirit into my heart and all that He does in me is not a result of my knowing Him.

It is because He knows me.