What will be will be. The key word is ‘WILL’. That faculty of mind that speaks to the virtue we call ‘courage’. The power of determination.
The quality of heroes. The ability to hold on to a vision in adversity.
This power of determination / will / courage is, I believe, the self same spiritual gift the bible calls ‘faith’. At the core of its working is vision – the ability to see….and keep on seeing….and to keep on being motivated by what is seen….to move forward in its general direction.
Give us vision. Something to hold on to. Something to believe.
There is no doubt that biblical faith is about the ‘unseen’ and is contrasted with the sensual capacity of sight. We do not refute this.
But, I often find facility in looking at things from a diametrically opposite perspective. The very words ‘look’ and ‘perspective’ connote focus and angle of vision.
The same letter where the writer of the Hebrews contrasts faith with sight is the same passage where he typifies the life of faith by ‘looking unto Jesus’ and ‘looking for a city whose builder is God”…etc. Faith is seeing after all. But what type of seeing?
Not a focus on things. Not a horizontal angle of vision concerned with worldly outcomes present or future. But a divine vision that inspires us to move in this life in consistent ways even when death is likely the result and all seems lost.
What difference does it make where a man is buried? -Consider the Heb 12 reflection on Joseph and his bones….- My friend Locksley Smith says Joseph being a prophet anticipated resurrection. Scripture reports that in the wake of Jesus’ crucifixion – the earth shook, the graves were open and the sun refused to shine. Joseph would have missed that resurrection had he been buried in Egypt. Inspired by that prophetic vision, he made preparation for hundreds of years to come.
Yes faith is divine will – divine determination – working through human willingness. All we do is say yes and Amen…..and hang on to the glorious end.
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