Faith - what more can we say?

HAVE YOU EVER FELT THAT YOU HAVE DONE EVERYTHING HUMANLY, PHYSICALLY, EMOTIONALLY AND SPIRITUALLY POSSIBLE TO GET A POINT OR TRUTH ACROSS BUT DOES NOT SEEM TO BE REGISTERING?

SOMETIMES, no matter how sincere we are, how slowly we move, how carefully we choose our words, how we do our best to explain, some seem to not understand.

When that sometimes happens, we need to remember that there is nothing more that we can say.

SOMETIMES, we need to remember that even the best life examples do not guarantee that something will be understood.

SOMETIMES, we need to remember that at issue is not that we are deficient in in our ability to communicate or that the hearer is necessary deficient in understanding.

AT ALL TIMES, we need to remember that some things are spiritual battles and we need to remind others of something beyond what they can naturally see and hear, to that something better provided for us and that becomes ours when we re looking to Jesus the founder and perfecter of our faith.

When we are doing our best to encourage others to embrace the Gospel and Jesus by faith, we should be willing to invest every last once of energy, every truth from the word of God, every idea that the Holy Spirit brings to mind with the prayer that while salvation is by grace through faith, we must reinvest everything that God has entrusted to us.

That seems to be the heart cry of the writer of Hebrews, especially when we consider .

What more can I say? Time would fail to tell of:

Gideon - one of the judges

Baarak - a little known leader who believed God’s promise of victory

Samson - a man whose strength came from God

Jephthah - whose trust was from God and whose power was from God

David - a man after God’s own heart

Samuel - a prophet who fought idolatry and immorality

The prophets - conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises

Women - received back their dead, tortured

Others - suffered, tortured, killed … OF WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY