You Gotta Have Faith!

Matthew 13:47-58

My first thought is one of sadness as I think about the people that will be thrown into a fiery furnace.  I don’t want anyone to have to experience that terrible demise, but I have to remember that we all are free to choose how to live our lives and who or what to serve.  Then I think about all the people that I come in contact with that may not know Jesus, did I show them who he is?  Were they put on my path for me to witness to and am I doing what I am called to do?  I am reminded once again how important it is to tell people about Jesus, to show them his love.  He didn’t save me and call me to just be a good person and think about myself.  He called me to follow him and to do what he has taught me to do through his word.

Earlier we had learned about the importance of faith and how so many times after healing someone, Jesus said that it was your faith that made you whole.  Now we find that a lack of faith will do the complete opposite.  This hurts my heart to read it and I am sure that Jesus’ heart ached as well for these people, his people and their lack of faith.  I can just picture all these people saying who does he think he is, we know him and have always known him, how in the world did he learn all these things, there has got to be something that we don’t know.  I am sure some of these people thought they had it all figured out, however, they just thought they knew who he was and still is!  It even says that they took offense to him.  Really, they took offense to one of their own that was doing all these miraculous works.  They gave him no respect, no honor.  Then in the very last verse it says that he did not do many miracles there.  He had every right to not do anything for these ungrateful people, but it was not because he didn’t love and care for them, it was because of their lack of faith.  These people seemed to be looking on the outside and not deep within.  I know that I have said it before but the bottom line is we have to believe who he says he is and what he says he can do!