Sojourn Campus Church

Ashok September 22nd, 2008

While talking and praying with some friends, I felt like God gave me a drop of distilled wisdom about faith… My ‘Aha!’ moments tend to come after months of seemingly unprofitable heart-wrestling with God. So here’s the thought-drop: “Faith is both resting and fighting”. We are, at various times, brought into difficult situations: seasons of need, times when we face pain, or a confrontation with our deep insecurities or fears. It is a test of faith — that much we are aware of; but how should we respond? I would like to suggest two types of faith-filled response:Faith as rest and faith as fight. There are times where the response that God desires from us is: “God, I entrust this issue, this brokenness, this failure, this need into your hands. I take my hands off this and rest in you. I wait for you to work on my behalf. My act of faith is to rest, trusting in what you promise to do for me”. At other times God desires that we would say: “God, this thing in my life is not of you. I refuse to tolerate this — I am going face this and fight this with everything you’ve put in my hand; I am trusting that my simple acts of faith will engage your mighty power and favor, and I will overcome this…”. Rest in faith; or fight in faith. Of course, the question that begs to be asked is: “How do you know when to fight and when to rest?”. Hmm… I haven’t figured this out yet! But here’s what I tend to do: I listen to the promises that God highlights as I seek to discern the right response. Do they call me to “wait in faith” or to “work in faith”? And that’s usually where I usually start… Hope this helps!

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