Jesus says so often, something like, "Your faith has made you well." I got to thinking about the usage of the word "faith" in the scriptures. Did Jesus mean the same thing I think of when I read that word? Did he mean your faith in God? Your faith in himself, Jesus? 'Cause that's what I have grown up thinking about when I hear, "Your faith has made you well."
But nothing I read about Jesus would suggest he wanted people to have faith in him. WE believe WE should have faith in him but I don't believe he thought that. I believe he wanted to point the finger away from himself, actually. I believe that he wanted his followers to believe in the same faith that he had - not in himself specifically but in the God he loved and the Love of that God and the Power of that God. I don't believe Jesus thought HE was doing the healing. If he had, he would have said, "Your faith in ME has made you well."
But he didn't even say, "Your faith in God has made you well." This blows my mind now that I really think about this. Your "faith". Faith the size of a mustard seed sometimes apparently from what scripture says. Faith the size so as to move mountains, it says elsewhere. But just FAITH. Not FAITH IN, but just FAITH.
This suggests to me an attitude that what I want to have happen actually will. Just that. Is that enough to be made well? To acquire your hearts desire?
Why not? The scriptures say so. Jesus says so. It must have worked for him. Why not you and me?
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This makes me think of Jabez:
ReplyDeleteOh, that you would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory; that your hand would be with me and keep me from evil; that I shall not cause pain. Bless me indeed.