i was talking to my mom this morning, and faith came up. i'm undertaking a series of projects, and it can be nerve-wracking.
can i be vulnerable and transparent here?
i've started a company before, and it's like building an airplane while you're flying. you're figuring it out and making things up as you go. you have faith that you'll put in the right pieces at the right time to keep the plane flying.
i've started projects where i didn't have the funding to complete them. i believed this was what God wanted me to do, even though the resources weren't available.
i call this "naked faith," because you have nothing to assist you. your funding can't help, your intellect can't help, and neither can family nor friends. it will have you asking God, "you just gon' have me out here like this?"
i want to do a deep study on 2 Corinthians 5. it's the Scripture that describes why we exist. in verse 7, the Bible says:
"for we walk by faith, not by sight." - 2 Corinthians 5:7 (ESV)
because faith and sight are being juxtaposed here, the Scripture demands that we replace sight with faith. in other words:
- replace the physical with the spiritual
- replace the natural with the supernatural
- replace humanity with divinity
to walk by faith, you have to strip away every single concept that makes you human. you have to die and be born again. faith is hard because it requires death to:
- self
- ego
- intellect
- dignity
faith requires you to lay down rationale and logic.
the demands of faith are so hard to acquire that God gifted it to us. it is the first gift we receive when we are born again.
so my brother, my sister, you have exactly what it takes to accomplish what God wants you to do. God wants you to know that you don't need Him to give you:
- the money
- the appointment
- anything you can see with your physical eyes
the only thing you need, He has already gifted to you, in a measure requisite to what He is asking you to do.
don't let another day pass making excuses about why you're not taking action, when the very thing you need, you already have.
may the Lord give us understanding.
your friend,
o.