The Hungry Disciple

God I 'm depressed and you aren't changing my feelings, but you are  joy. God I 'm discouraged and you aren't comforting me, but you are love. God I'm disillusioned and you aren't explaining anything, but you are good. God I am furious that you aren't fixing anyone or anything, but you are faithful. God  my heart is hard and cold and I can't feel you, but you are here. God says "let there be light" and  suddenly everything is different

  Christians probably hear more teaching about faith than they do about Jesus. During my walk with Jesus He has taught me many things about faith, but in all my struggles to learn about faith, faith has never taught me anything about Jesus.  When you think about it, we all have faith. Believers and unbelievers, even blasphemers have faith. Most humans have faith the sun is going to rise every morning, but does our faith in its rising cause the sun to rise?  Actually, we have faith the sun will rise every morning because the sun has risen so many mornings. Because of all the sunrises we experience, on cloudy days we do not panic. We know the sun is still there. I've struggled with many teachings I have heard about Christian faith but with none so much as the concept that faith is something that we speak which leaves scores of Christians thinking that finding something in The Bible that is true and saying it over and over and over is going to make it happen beca...