Just Add Faith . . .

II Peter 1: 5-9
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

The person who invented instant mashed potatoes must be stinking rich! All you have to do is add some hot water and man you've got food! From that invention we have so many other instant meals (pancakes, oatmeal, ramen noodles--you get the picture). In each of these cases, the hot water changes a dry and unappetising product into warm, savory smelling food that may not be a full course meal, but if you're a college student it'll do the trick. There is a metamorphosis and a chemical reaction that alters the substance from something inedible to something that can be used.

We can think about faith in the same way. When we add faith to our situation the same type of life changing reaction happens. Add faith and your situation comes alive--it is no longer dry. Add faith and God comes in and begins to expand and grow your favor and your opportunities. Add faith and watch God bless you in your relationships with others. Without faith the things that we've hoped for are just dusty, empty, and dry but when we add the measure of faith given to all of us, God is alerted in the spirit realm. Because God is our Father when we call on Him in faith He responds. Faith is our hot water--it is the substance of what we've been hoping for and the evidence of what was before unseen.

Without faith it is impossible to please God because you are not in the spirit, but with faith then you bring along with you all of the attributes in the scripture above. You begin to add to yourself virtue and knowledge and self-control and patience, holiness, brotherly kindness and love. Your eyes open--your spiritual eyes and your mouth closes--you are able to listen more and hear the voice of God and be open to know where He has opened the windows of heaven. As we add these attributes to ourselves it is hard to hold on to the way we used to live.

As I add faith I can see better, hear better, I feel better because I have substance--I'm not dry and tasteless. Today just add faith . . .