Certain

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. (Hebrews 11:1) 

 

Have you ever just known about something, but had no proof?  You just “knew” when you met your husband.  Or you “just knew” when you stepped into a school that you would work there.  Or you “just knew” you needed to change directions.  And even though you just knew – you could not put anything tangible to it.  Just a gut feeling.  A knowing.  No proof.  You just knew. 

 

I have had these times.  Times when everything seems so impossible, so uncertain, and improbable – even though you ‘know’.  Even when everything in the physical world says no – when God says yes, you can bank on it. 

 

Faith is like that.  You cannot see the wind, but you can feel it.  You can see its presence in the way the tree branches blow.  Yet wind itself you cannot see.  But you know it is there. It’s the same with love.  You can feel love for someone, know you are loved by someone, and you can see tangible gestures of love.  But you cannot see love itself, just as you cannot see the wind.  Yet still – you know. 

 

Faith is the substance of what we hope for.  Substance brings with it the idea that it is real and tangible.  The gut feelings we talked about.  It may be a vision.  A dream.  It may be a notion.  A sense.  But we know. 

 

Even though everything in the physical realm may point to that knowing you have deep inside you as not becoming a reality, God, in his infinite creativity can make a way.  When God ordains something, all hell can try to stand in the way and it will not thwart the will of God. 

 

But faith is being sure of that.  The substance.  The evidence.  The sureness.  The certainty. 

 

What is it I can be sure of? All that God has promised. What is the evidence?  He said it, and God is true to His Word.  He reminds me regularly.

 

Lord God, each one of us can have faith in uncertain times and inhospitable conditions that what You have said is true.  Help is on the way.  You know the time and the place.  Our job is to believe.  To be sure.  To be certain.  To be still and know.  Selah.