Hope For The Heart Unknown

Have you ever questioned your own faith, by asking yourself, will my faith last me or make it through even more trials and hardships---Am I really saved because I have a hard time trusting God-- So if the trials get more difficult than my faith may not get me through.-In this passage Peter gives us some real assurance that our faith is a living faith and we have a living hope and a living power , and an inheritance reserved in heaven waiting for us. This inheritance is protected by God Himself and is undefined and will not fade away and waiting for you.We have been given a supernatural faith to believe truths about God that will last through eternity-Praise-The-Lord.

Jesus has been giving these disciples a series of lessons on faith and now decides to test them to see if they are getting it. So, He initiates a trip across the Sea of Galilee and a terrifying storm comes and they think He said -let's go to the middle of the lake and drown-. So they failed the hearing test but Jesus calms the waves and the winds and now they are more afraid because the sea and the winds obeyed Him.

In this parable we hear Jesus say the response to the Word of God, the Gospel, depends on the heart. He gives us an example of 4 kinds of soil that represent the kinds of responses we will get to the gospel. Only one response, the good soil, can receive it so that it takes root in the person because God prepares the heart to receive it. This is called a supernatural work of God in the person which causes us to be born again. Also called, regeneration.

I like to name this passage -The Parable of the Soils- because the issue presented is the soils and not the seed or the sower.-The soils represent the human heart and its different responses to the Word of God. In fact, our faith is related to one of the soils which means that only one of the 4 soils represents genuine or real faith. This would explain why some who appear to be believers abandon the faith. -The faith that fizzles before the finish was flawed from the first.-

What is your greatest fear---I can't answer that for you but I can show you a few things in a prayer by Habakkuk. His greatest fear was not his circumstances, which, by the way, were very dark and dreadful. God had just told him his nation was about to go into judgment and He was going to use an evil nation to take them captive.-Yet Habakkuk's greatest fear was that God would be glorified in His purpose and plan for the nation of Israel.-Perhaps we could learn a lesson or two from this mighty prayer by a prophet in the old testament.

Habakkuk wanted to know the same question and realized that God would reveal some things to him but some things were to remain hidden. In fact, there are many things related to God's will that we will not ever understand. Why is there suffering by believers in this world or why do Christians have to get cancer and die-- We might never understand God's ways but we must have faith in Him. You see the object of our faith is Christ -Himself- and not what we would like Him to do for us.