A Season of Miracles
During our men's prayer this morning I really felt a confirmation that we are coming into a season of miracles at NCC. The Lord impressed a few things on me this morning. The epitome of unbelief is reducing God to the size of our biggest problems. We believe God for amazing things when nothing is wrong. So the size of our God fluctuates. He gets bigger as our problems get smaller. He gets smaller as our problems get bigger. I pray for a faith that gets bigger as my problems or challenges get bigger!
I believe that knowledge and faith and directly proportional. The more you know the more faith you can have. But I also know that knowledge can be a barrier. We can become "slaves to logic." I wonder if our faith is too complicated. I read the gospels and everybody who Jesus healed seemed to have such simple childlike faith. I'm praying that God would reduce me to the faith of a child.
We took the kid's to the air and space museum yesterday and they had a ten-foot cross-section of an American Airlines Douglas DC7 airplane. You can board it and walk through it. I noticed that Josiah seemed a little uncertain. I asked him if he wanted to see it. And he asked me if it was going to take off! I thought that was so funny and so astounding! By the way, after that, we went a few different exhibits and one of the rockets. And Josiah kept asking me if stuff was going to take off! I told Lora and we were sort of marveling. It was a ten-foot cross-section of plane. The rocket was indoors. But Josiah didn't know what couldn't happen. I love that simple childlike world of possibilities. He didn't know enough to know what couldn't happen. True knowledge should increase our world, but it can also decrease our world if we allow the world to be limited to what we know! Information can create logical limits. It can actually reduce our world. But true knowledge always results in humility which I define as a heightened appreciation of the bigness of God. You know how much you don't know.
The more you know the more limitations you tend to develop. That is the curse of knowledge. That is why faith is more about unlearning what we know than learning what we don't know!
I have a renewed hunger to experience God in new ways. I want to sing a new song! But new expressions require new experiences. I want to think new thoughts. I want to feel new feelings. Lord, do a new thing in me! I'm waiting and willing.
I believe that knowledge and faith and directly proportional. The more you know the more faith you can have. But I also know that knowledge can be a barrier. We can become "slaves to logic." I wonder if our faith is too complicated. I read the gospels and everybody who Jesus healed seemed to have such simple childlike faith. I'm praying that God would reduce me to the faith of a child.
We took the kid's to the air and space museum yesterday and they had a ten-foot cross-section of an American Airlines Douglas DC7 airplane. You can board it and walk through it. I noticed that Josiah seemed a little uncertain. I asked him if he wanted to see it. And he asked me if it was going to take off! I thought that was so funny and so astounding! By the way, after that, we went a few different exhibits and one of the rockets. And Josiah kept asking me if stuff was going to take off! I told Lora and we were sort of marveling. It was a ten-foot cross-section of plane. The rocket was indoors. But Josiah didn't know what couldn't happen. I love that simple childlike world of possibilities. He didn't know enough to know what couldn't happen. True knowledge should increase our world, but it can also decrease our world if we allow the world to be limited to what we know! Information can create logical limits. It can actually reduce our world. But true knowledge always results in humility which I define as a heightened appreciation of the bigness of God. You know how much you don't know.
The more you know the more limitations you tend to develop. That is the curse of knowledge. That is why faith is more about unlearning what we know than learning what we don't know!
I have a renewed hunger to experience God in new ways. I want to sing a new song! But new expressions require new experiences. I want to think new thoughts. I want to feel new feelings. Lord, do a new thing in me! I'm waiting and willing.
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