DAILY VITAMIN

- What Faith Is (3)

"When Jesus saw their Faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” (Mark 2:5 NIV)

Faith is an action. Not a thought nor some magical response; it simply means acting on the premise of God's personality and the authenticity of His Word. In other words, being an action, what it then means is that faith can be noticed. It can be seen. Jesus asked the people if He would find faith on the earth on His return (Luke 18:8). As such, it then means that faith can't be hidden.

In our theme scripture, we see four men showing what faith truly is. The Bible says they tried reaching Jesus but when they couldn't due to the crowd, they climbed the house where He was, and dug right into where He sat.

And this they did because they believed... Jesus must have noticed the dust peeling off from the roof as it collapsed to reveal these four men carrying the sick fellow on a stretcher. And I can just imagine Jesus smiling as they came down, because nothing touches Him as greatly as the expression of faith; for where faith is expressed, possibilities are endless. 

Eventually, He healed the man who was sick. In the same way, your faith has to show. Don't just say you believe, prove it with an action of faith. Go to the Lord with faith for that healing, that promotion, and do whatever corresponding action required of you, and I can assure you that you'd get your miracle. The woman with the blood issue shouldn't have been moving in her condition to save strength, yet she risked it all because she knew what Jesus could do. She knew there is no risk in faith when the healer arrives. And He had arrived. Do the same and you'd get the same. And this I know because faith acted upon always yield an extraordinary display of God's power.