Chapter 8
“Through The eyes of a Child”
True spiritual faith {seeing the invisible, believing the incredible, and receiving the impossible} in the same way a child see’ things, in fact a child believes all you tell them, as well as see’ things differently, any child in the world would see shapes in all things just ask them while watching clouds go by, or why they see this instead of what you see. You see a child will see, here, receive no evil until they are told by us {the adult tells them so}, in fact if you put two children together to play they will play, but if you tell one that the other is bad then you have changed the play to no playing or fighting then you have went against God’s design of even what we are to be like. {Matthew:1:1-5} Here Jesus is speaking to us and about the children as we are the children of the Father in Heaven, for you see children are innocent and this is the way God wants us to be with Him and our brothers and sisters.
At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the
And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little
children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in
And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
We really can learn more from children then we think. That is what God is telling us when He says to come to Him like a child and that is how we know we have an inter child to raise and take care of so we can always, {seeing the invisible, believing the incredible, and receiving the impossible}, because it is just that simple and is made very clear in several places in the Bible, along with the fact that the Bible is just that, ‘How to connect with God and live the life God intended for us,’ and not the way we want our life to be. I believe one of the best examples of true ‘Spiritual Faith’ is found in Matthew where the woman is waiting for Jesus to come walking down the street. She believed that if she could just touched His garment she would be healed,
Matthew 9:20-22
20. Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of His cloak. 21. She said to herself, “If I only touch His cloak, I will be healed. 22. Jesus turned and saw her. “Take heart, daughter,’ He said, “Your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed from that moment.
This is truly deep ‘Spiritual Faith’ because it touches on this fact by seeing the invisible, by believing the incredible, and receiving the impossible, this is what’s talked about in the Bible, because it shows that the woman believed that she would be healed, ‘Jesus said, believe in me with your whole heart, mind, and soul’ now. If we look at the woman {above} we see that {1} see seen herself being healed, {2} She believed with all her Heart, Mind, and Soul that she would be healed when she touched Jesus’ garment, {3} Truly she know she would be healed through Faith which is in fact {seeing the invisible, believing the incredible, and receiving the impossible} I the book “The Power of Positive Thinking” Norman Vincent Peale points out that the human mind, heart, and soul work together in unison as one in fact we can look at how the bible explains, Paul tells us about it in “Life through the Spirit”
Romans 8:1-4
1. Therefore there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2. Because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
3. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so He condemned sin in sinful man,
4. In order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit?
There are also other places in the Bible where it’s pointed out that we are all deferent parts of the same body of Christ Jesus. Yes there are a lot of places in the Bible where you can find not only examples of Spiritual Faith but where we as humans have and do take life and God for grant. We as humans are all the time trying to fix and do things on our terms not on God’s terms, and yes we Christians are also trying to help God to fix or do thing for us, just like Abraham and Sarah did when an Angel of the Lord came to them and told them there prayer would be answered and the Lord was to give them a son, but they knew that Sarah could not have children and she was too old so they went to their Egyptian maidservant Hagar and she had a son named Ishmael, {this is found in}
Genesis 15:1-4
1. After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.” 2. But Abram said, “O Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Believer of Damascus?” 3. And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.” 4. Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir.”
Genesis 16:1-2
1. Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar; 2. So she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai
This illustrates the form of humans {Christian or none Christian} attempt to do what they think is meant or god’s will for us. But as we find in,
Genesis 21:1-3
1 Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah {Sarai} as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what He had promised. 2. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham {Abram} in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. 3. Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him.
The Lord kept what He had promised to Abraham and Sarah and she bore a son his name was Isaac. Are we starting to see the different between being patent in allowing God to guide our live’, and not allowing ourselves to try to guide it for God. So the question is, “Can we take a lesson from all this?”