Twelve Inches of Faith—Diligently Seeking Him
Most Christians that see God reward diligent seekers are content to be casual observers of this truth rather than participants in it. Their faith, or their measure of confidence, is too weak to jump out and trust God for rewards in their own life. They know God rewards diligent seekers, but they seek their own reward. However, as Christians, they are guaranteed by God to not gain their reward. They will seek it and never receive it.
They remain baby Christians because while they believe God rewards diligent seekers, they won’t participate in diligently seeking Him. Like newborn babies, they will grow as they are fed and exercised. Hearing the Word feeds a baby and doing the Word exercises it. If a baby eats and eats and eats without exercising they become nothing more than a fat baby! That’s what we have in most of our churches—fat babies. They cry and whine and the only way they “get changed” is if someone else “changes them!” The reason for this is that after their birth they began to eat and failed to exercise.
A baby begins skinny until she is introduced to her mother’s milk, then she gets fat. All of a sudden she starts crawling around, and then that baby fat disappears and she gets skinny again. Then her mother will introduce her to baby food and she will grow chunky again. By this time, however, she begins to walk and next thing you know she’s back down to a skinny little thing.
Next, her mother will introduce her to solid food and back up in weight she goes. But she starts running and jumping and playing and she drops the pounds again. This cycle continues in our life until we reach about….oh, well. Let’s say about 30 years old. Then what happens? We get fat. Why? Because we stop exercising!
This same truth can be applied to why most people never grow in faith much deeper than six or nine inches. They are so close to gaining the entire foot that would cause them to be filled with the love of Christ, but they fall short. Why do they do this? Because they will not exercise their new found faith.
Let me encourage you to change your observations into participation. “Jump in—the water’s fine!” The more you diligently seek God, the more you will be rewarded. The more you are rewarded, the less faith you will need. The less faith you need the more God will challenge you. The more God challenges you the more your faith will be tested. The more your faith is tested, the more faith you will need. The more faith you need the more you will need to diligently seek God! It’s a reciprocal cause and effect.
Some say faith is to believe in what you cannot see, so that you can someday see what you have believed. If you will step out in bold confidence and express faith in God, He will show you that your confidence is not in vain. He will show you what you have believed! From there, it will require no more faith. You will be living by sight again. Thus, God will take you to new levels and introduce you to new devils. As you exercise faith, he gives you clearer sight. Diligent seeking of God in anticipation of a reward is your faith in ACTION!! Faith without works does not produce life, much less can it reproduce life!
If you want to have Enoch’s faith, you will have to take a walk with God. But, be careful, you may end up out on the water! “…O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?” (Matthew 14:31)
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