Lord, I Believe

Jesus said to him, If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes. Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help my unbelief! 

Mark 9:23-24 

Christ makes much of belief. In the first portion of our text, after the man with the demon-possessed son has said, ‘If you can do anything…’ Christ counters with, ‘If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.’ When John wrote his gospel, he stated his purpose for writing as, ‘that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.’ Paul’s statement to the Philippian jailer was, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you and your household.’ Belief in Christ is critical for salvation and for everything that follows in our relationship with Him. At no point in our experience of Christ does belief become unimportant. Every day we live and every situation of life in which we find ourselves affords us some new occasion to believe. If we rest solely upon our own ability to resolve issues, fix what is broken, right what is wrong and straighten what is crooked we will find ourselves failing at every turn. Christ can do all we cannot. Therefore we have every reason to believe in Him and in His power to resolve what we can never do on our own. With the man in the text we declare, ‘Lord, I believe.’ Faith in Christ is never misplaced. 

Our Glorious God and our Savior, 
we rejoice that it is never a waste of time to believe in You. 
We praise You that You prove Yourself to us, 
over and over again. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning