Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.” Mark 9:23
At the heart of salvation is a key message, “Believe” Everything that pertains to the Christian experience rotates around that subject. It determines how far deeply we can walk with God but most importantly how productive our lives will be.
For one to be able to subscribe to salvation, one ought to put their trust in Whom they can’t see. Believing He died for their sins so they can be accepted into the family of God as children born not of the will of man but of God. Everything else that we do with the Invincible One is done entirely out of faith in Him. When you accepted Him, it was only a matter of believing. He wants it to stay that way. He wants you to take the same approach to all things.
Here is where it gets complicated! Receiving Jesus as LORD is one thing, accepting what He has freely given to us by His death on the cross is completely a different matter. Somehow we want to stay in charge, to be in some sort of control. We would rather navigate the course of our lives than simply accept what has been offered freely. There are two issues that make it hard for us to accept what we have been freely given by the LORD.
First we think this is too good to be true and secondly we feel unworthy of such blessings and privileges. The latter is true especially when one considers their family background. Those who have been raised in hardship find it hard to accept that anything can be given to them freely because all they have known is a life of struggle & limitation. Then those who have had a fairly good life will question the possibility of one having something they haven’t worked for. This to them doesn’t make sense since they haven’t paid a price for it.
In other words, we complicate the salvation journey that God intended to be simple according to His word by removing our eyes from Him and fixing them firmly on ourselves. When we do that, we alienate ourselves from what is rightfully ours because we start to question if it is indeed possible to have the things the word of God says we should have and whether we can really do what Jesus said we can do.
Remember when you first believed in the LORD Jesus. You came as you were, with humility in your heart. You confessed Him as your LORD, peace flooded your heart and there was such joy within you. Back then, you didn’t do anything, never consulted your past, not your family or current circumstances. You went to the cross and received Him as a gift. Deep inside your heart you knew there was nothing anyone could do for you to receive salvation. What makes you think there is something that you or anyone else can do for you in regard to that which you received by faith.
Your faith is unproductive and you are struggling to believe because you don’t look to Him the same way you did when you received salvation. Today you feel a certain way, like you
don’t even know how to believe Him for the simplest of things let alone the big ones this is because you have mixed your faith with many things especially, “Dos” & “Don’ts” and a lot of works. Yet when you received Him, all you did was believe. Now you don’t know how to believe anymore. If you are going to understand what it means to believe, go back to the first day when you accepted Jesus Christ as your LORD and Savior. If you can mentally go back to that place, to that moment and the a few days in the runup to that big day, you will realize one thing. It costs you nothing to accept Him. Now that’s how it should be when we approach Him. That’s why He easily says, “All things are possible to him who believes” because He wants you to receive it the same way. It shouldn’t be complicated.
As it was in the beginning, so it should be now. With humility in your heart, eyes fixed entirely on Him, we must come meekly before the throne of Grace, believing that all things are possible. ALL THINGS.
Here is Your Prayer Path
Dear Father, take me back to that place when I first believed. In Jesus Name. Amen.
Ps Mark Odeke
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