"Sense Meets Faith"

"Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance." (Psalms 42:5) And yet, I don't care how mature or strong that you are as a believer, there are going to be days of wavering and doubt; I know that it is bound to happen, because it happen to David. As a matter of fact, even Jesus had an hour or so where His sense of what was about to happen took Him off His game; where He sought for the Father to find another way, that it did not need to happen as originally planned. More than that, I believe Jesus prayed as He did for strength, and for the courage to go forward; which is basically the same thing that we must do, as we give all the glory to God, knowing that it is His will that must be done, not ours. If you really take the time to think about it, God's will is always the best to seek after, because when we are seeking God's will for our lives, then we know that everything will turn out just fine; actually, those things that look the worst and don't appear to make much sense, are usually the things that do the most good, because God's hand is pressing hard upon our lives. I heard a very interesting thing at the Men's Conference this last Saturday, which was about the reason Moses covered his face after having been in the presence of God, that it was so the people would not notice how his countenance changed afterwards; after the passing of time, how the glow disappeared from his face. All of our hope needs to stay focused in God, not in how we might appear, or how things might appear around us: "For faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1). Sense takes those things that are seen and tries to make sense of everything, but the things of God do not make sense in this world; neither can we, without faith, hope in God without first taking our eyes off of the things of this world, and place them firmly upon the Lord. The second thing that we must do, after having hoped in God, is to praise Him; praise Him for trial or tribulation; make known in our hearts how much that we trust Him, for we know that His perfect will is being worked out within our life. That is how faith must act, by rejoicing in the midst of the fire, and by giving God the glory in the midst of the tribulation or circumstance; that is what faith looks like compared to sense, because faith can not make sense of what is ahead, and sense can not understand faith; they just don't see eye to eye... "For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of Whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." (Ephesians 3:14-19)