Faith takes and says thank you; and what we take, He undertakes. Living by the faithfulness of Christ is the easiest thing in the world because He is always faithful. He is even faithful when we struggle to believe. “If we are faithless, He remains faithful; for He cannot deny Himself.” – 2 Timothy 2:13
let those words sink in for a minute! Jesus can’t help but be faithful because He cannot stop being Himself. It is so heartbreaking watching Christians trying to muster up enough faith to get God to act, when the whole time God has already promised to be faithful and all we have to do is thank Him. Faith is like eyesight; you never know that your eyes are working unless they are fixed on an object beyond yourself. Your eyes can’t look at your eyes to see if your eyes are working, but sadly, Christians often waste their time trying to examine whether or not there faith is adequate. Faith is simply our response to His adequacy not its own adequacy. Faith doesn’t make Him adequate or make Him faithful. He is adequate for every situation, and He is always faithful, whether we believe it or not. Our part is to rest on those realities, and when we do, we’ve exercised faith. Faith doesn’t make anything true or real. It is a response to what is already true and already real. “By faith, even Sarah herself received ability to conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him faithful who had promised.” – Hebrews 11:11.
Sarah’s faith wasn’t some attitude that created God’s ability. Sarah’s faith received the ability of God that already existed. Sarah’s faith didn’t cause God to be faithful. Her faith was a response to the fact that He is always faithful. The Christian life is a step-by-step trust that Jesus is and will be faithful. It doesn’t matter if you are faithless, as long as you believe He is faithful. Again, that, of course, is what faith actually is. True faith puts all the pressure on God (by the way, He likes it that way. He came to us in Christ so that He could carry the load; not so that he could add to ours) to be faithful; not on how much faith you have. “It is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you.” – Romans 11:18c.