Faith Shall Be My Eyes.

Faith shall be my eyes focuses on a passage from Second Peter where the author reminds believers to add to their faith. Brian explains.

Deliverance From Sin

I want to focus on Second Peter, Chapter 1:3,5-8,

His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,  for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,  to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in  the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.  (2 Peter 1:3,5-8)

To deliver us from sin, God has been writing a story book romance that seems right out of a fairy tale – but it is no fairy tale. This is how the story goes, and you may think you’ve heard it a thousand times, in a  thousand stories, but this is The story, from which all the story books take their happy, ever-after ending.

A Great Lover

It is the story of a great Lover who has lost the one he wanted to be his bride.  In order to rescue her, he goes on a long, hard journey from the high country to the very low country where she is.  He goes to great lengths to find her – some would say outrageous lengths, not-to-be-believed – and yet we are asked to believe. 

He engages in fierce warfare – unarmed, all alone – against the most menacing battle forces ever assembled.  He suffers what seems to be a stunning, total defeat.  But out of his death he comes back to life and brings Life itself with him.  Not till he does that, do his followers finally understand all the foreshadowing in the story.

A Happy Ending

Is there a happy ending? Do people get to live happily … ever after?   Heaven’s to Betsy, yes… and heaven to you and me! But it all starts with faith.

Verse 5 says – “Giving all diligence, add to your faith.”

n Chris Tomlin’s song, “I Will Rise”, he sings, “There’s a day that’s drawing near, When this darkness breaks to light, And the shadows disappear, And my faith shall be my eyes.”  My faith shall be my eyes. 

Romans 8:24-25 puts it this way:  

For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?  But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. Romans 8:24-25

Ray Charles

The musician Ray Charles went blind at age 7. When someone asked him how he approached the world around him, he said: “I hear like you see.”

That’s faith’s motto:  I hear like you see.  I trust in God — in what he’s done, and is doing and will do – as much, even more than others trust in what they touch and taste and see. “I hear like you see.”  That’s us isn’t it?  As Paul said,

“So, then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”  (Romans 10:17)

Habakkuk also said that,

“The just shall live by his faith.” (Habakkuk 2:4)

Well, that’s easier said than done. When the disciples found out they had to forgive someone 70 times 7 times, they said to Jesus, “Increase our faith!”

When faced with repeated, frustrating sin, even from our brothers and sisters in Christ, how about this simple prescription for medicine:  Increase the dose. “Increase our faith.”

Where the Welland River Meets the Niagara River

If you are boating where the Welland River meets the Niagara River, hopefully you will see a warning sign as you get closer to the point where 3,160 tons of water flows over Niagara Falls every second. The warning is in the form of 2 questions: “Do you have an anchor.” “Do you know how to use it?”

Our lives from now right on into the eternal future can only be secured by the anchor of Faith. To reword the sign on the Welland River, “Do you have faith?” “Do you know how to use it?”

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