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Ambidextrous Faith

Philippians 4.12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 13 I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

Here is what ambidextrous, or "two-handed" faith means to me, in theory if not always in practice. I take "everything without exception" as God's action in the sense of asking what I can learn from it and praying for God to redeem it by improving me. I take nothing as God's action in the sense of judging God's character, for I have learned to accept my puny status as a creature--which includes a limited point of view that obscures unseen forces in the present as well as a future known only to God. The skeptic may insist that unfairly lets God off the hook, but perhaps that's what faith is: trusting God's goodness despite any apparent evidence against it. As a soldier trusts his general's orders; better, as a child trusts her loving parent.--Reaching for the Invisible God, Philip Yancey, p. 69.

Dear Father, we are so grateful for our precious faith in Christ. Help us to develop greater trust in You each day--to practice this two-handed faith. Help those who are hurting. We ask this in the name of Christ, the Beloved. Amen.

1 John 5.14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

Only God can know HOW our prayers WORK but we believe HE answers. Please write me to add names to the prayer list and to report changes in status.

Let us be thankful and prayerful!

Love
Brad Forgy