Our faith : a lever to move mountains

Sunday March 27, 2022

Our faith : a lever to move mountains

Paul and Barnabas therefore stayed long enough at Iconuim ; they spoke boldly, leaning on the Lord who bore witness to the word of his grace and allowing miraculous signs and wonders to be done through them. Acts 14:3

And he (Jesus) said : Come ! Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water to go to Jesus. But, seeing that the wind was strong, he was afraid ; and, as he began to sink, he cried out : Lord, save me ! Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, seized him, and said to him : You of little faith, why did you doubt ? Matthew 14:29-31

Archimedes, a 3rd century BCE Greek scholar, once said : "Give me a lever and a fulcrum, and I will lift the world." This is theoretically true, but in practice it would require a lever of extraordinary length and strength and an extremely strong fulcrum !

On what or on whom is our faith based ? The Lord tells us : If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mountain : Move from here to there, and it would move, nothing will be impossible for you (Matthew 17:20). We do not pretend to lift the world. But we still have the privilege of seeing the obstacles that Satan insists on putting in front of us move, if we use our faith as a lever and Jesus as a fulcrum.

When it comes to bringing the Gospel to those who are still strangers to the grace of God, mountains often rise up before us, obstacles that seem insurmountable : "the moment is not propitious", "it he may be a brutal man", "in any case he will not listen"... It is neither by our strength, nor by our wisdom that we will be able to remove these obstacles, it is by faith . And there is only one point of support so that the “lever” of our faith can prove effective, it is the Lord Jesus himself. But she often proves too weak. It doesn't take much, but it has to be alive, like a mustard seed that has a little living germ in it and grows into a great plant.

Let us take courage, even if our faith wavers and the Lord must tell us like Peter : You of little faith, why did you doubt ? In this case, the hand of Jesus is always ready to seize us to straighten us up. Would he have called us to let us perish ?

Source (Pleasing the Lord)