Adventures in 16/30

So.

Number 16 comes to us courtesy of the GFDC Women's Day Program. The COGICs asked me a week or so ago to compose something for the theme "women of the most high, walking by faith"....so of course i started it last night around 10. I intended to write an additional po-em to be number 16...but my brain hurts, and I need to rest it so I can write today's piece.

So. Here is what the good people of Greater Faith heard this morn.

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so here's what we know
we know faith is the substance of things hoped for
the evidence of things not seen
we know that it cones by hearing
and hearing by the word
that without it
it's impossible to please Him
we know that all it takes to move a mountain
is faith as a grain of mustard seed
we've heard name it and claim it
believe it and receive it
as the 2-step method to ensure a blessing
but i wonder
when push is pressed against shove
is to act in faith our first response
or do we falter at the call to put faith in action
because our faith walk is out of practice
let's examine
Hebrews 11:6 says the first act of faith is to trust who God is
i mean
you cannot walk with someone
until you know who you're walking with
so what [do] you know
about a God who sustains the world
on the exhaled breath of his spoken word
a God who hastens to perform
miracles on behalf of those called his own
the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful one
the great I am and Lord of Lords
and we know
all this is not enough
to get at the fullness of his attributes
you know what they say about 10000 tongues
but i know
if we can understand
even a glimpse of the size of his stature
it will quickly put in perspective
the truth about our circumstance
what seems impossible in our own hands
is a light affliction when carried by his
so we walk by faith
and not by sight
which doesn't mean we turn a blind eye to what's real about what we're going through
we just understand there's nothing more real than the promise of God which is always sure
the same faith
by which we are saved and justified
in times of trouble we don't falter
we take that faith and live by it