You may be in this situation
now where you're going, I don't understand why he doesn't just
do it. Like, why does he require me to believe? Like, why is faith
so important? Faith, belief, like really trusting,
believing, having faith in God, it's the receptive Faith is the
way that you receive God's power. A lot of you guys know, I feel
like probably every time I speak, I talk about a Reese's Peanut
Butter Cup. And so today will be no different, especially given
that it was Halloween and I've had a thousand in the last week.
But seriously, or kind of seriously, a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup,
right, is this joyful, beautiful, grand, right, piece of food, let's say, that
has all of the wonder, like all this substance and joy is in
the Reese's peanut butter cup. But if I don't have a mouth,
I can't enjoy it. You get what I mean? Like I actually
have to eat it. I have to be able to taste it
in order to have all of its joy. And faith is like my mouth. It's the receptive way that you're
able to receive God. It'd be sort of like me saying,
hey, I've got $10 billion to give you. And if I was going
to give it to you, I'd say, where are you going to put it? In order
for you to actually receive that, you need a bank to put that in. The bank has no worth in and
of itself. All of the treasure is in the
cash. But you need a way to actually receive it, to hold on to it,
to have it, to make it yours. And that bank doesn't have any
of the treasure, but that bank is faith. It's the way that you
actually are able to receive the treasure of God. In order
for you to actually live in it is to believe in it, to trust
it, to have it, to hold it in your heart. Be sort of like connecting
your, you know, you could come in here and there's Wi-Fi in
here, and you could have a computer in here, but unless you connect,
You aren't able to draw all of what the internet, what the web
has into your computer, right? Unless you actually are able
to connect to it. Like you have to have the password, right?
It's like God does have an incredible living message for you. But in order for you to receive
it, in order for you to experience it, you have to have faith. In
order for you to connect to it, you have to have faith. So it's
very possible. So God exists, and God is able,
and God is powerful enough to do all kinds of different things.
The point is, you can still walk around in fear, and anger and bitterness, all
the while God has been good. All the while God has been working,
all the while God has been protecting you and guiding you, been good
to you, but yet I don't see him as good. I don't experience the
joy from that. Why? Because I don't see him.
Because I don't have faith.