Faith Part 2

Faith Part 1

Anyone that has ever done the "trust fall" knows faith.  The "trust fall" goes like this.  You climb up onto a platform, behind you on the ground is a group of people, this group lays their hands out to catch you, then you stand on the edge of the platform with your back towards the group and then fall backwards.  When doing this you are trusting that this group is going to catch you.  Trust is a part faith.  Once you lean back to fall you have totally surrendered control.  

Faith is total surrender.  Surrender is not an easy thing for us to do as humans.  We naturally want the control.  I fly, but for me it isn't easy to hop on that jet and relax.  Why?  I'm not in control.  I have to trust someone up front in the cockpit knows what he or she is doing.   I have to trust that a mechanic, that I don't know, has given the jet a thorough check up.

As a 7 year old boy I trusted Jesus Christ as my Savior.  Now at 7 I didn't know much other than the fact that Jesus died on the cross for my sins so I could have a relationship with God and spend eternity in heaven when my life on earth is over.  That was an act of faith.  Faith of a child.  Children often simply accept things at face value don't they?  They don't try to confuse things.  As adults we have a hard time not confusing things or making things more difficult than they really are.

Is faith, total surrender, easy?  Not for most of us.  But all we need is the tiny faith, faith of a mustard seed.  Why not surrender totally (have faith in) to God?  After all He created this world we live in.  Since God can make life why not trust him with life?

Tomorrow I'll share about a time when I came to realize what total surrender is all about.