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I heard about a man some years ago who was rolling a wheelbarrow back
and forth across Niagara River on a tightrope. Thousands of people were
shouting him on. He put a two-hundred pound sack of dirt in the
wheelbarrow and rolled it over, and then he rolled it back. then he
turned around and said, ''How many of you believe that I can roll a
man across?''
Everybody shouted! One man in the front row was very excited in his
professed belief. The man pointed to this excited professor and said,''
You're next!!''
You couldn't see that man for dust! He actually didn't believe it. He
said he believed it, he thought he believed it-- but he was not willing
to get in the wheelbarrow.
Just so with Christ. There are many people who say they believe on
Him, who say they will follow Him. But they have never gotten into the
wheelbarrow. They actually never have committed and surrendered
themselves wholly , 100% to Christ.
There are many people who ask, ''Well, how much faith does it take?''
Jesus said only the faith as of ''a grain of mustard seed.''
Others ask, ''What kind of faith?'' It is not a matter of any special
kind of faith. There is only one kind, really. It is the OBJECT of faith
that counts. What is the object of your faith? The object of your faith
must be Christ. Not faith in ritual, not faith in sacrifices, not faith
in morals, not faith in yourself--not faith in anything but Christ!
Now the Bible teaches that faith will manifest itself in three ways.
It will manifest itself in doctrine-- in what you believe. It will manifest
itself in worship-- your communion with God and the fellowship of the
church. it will manifest itself in morality-- in the way you live and behave.
The Bible also teaches that faith does not end with trust in Christ
for your salvation. Faith continues. Faith grows. It may be weak at first,
but it will become stronger as you read the Bible, pray, go to church,
and experience God's faithfulness in your Christian life. After you
have repented of sins and accepted him by faith, then you must trust Him to
keep you, strengthen you, enable you, sustain you. You will learn more
and more how to rely on Christ for every need, in meeting every
circumstance, and every trial. You will learn to say with Paul, ''I am
crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live: yet not I, but Christ liveth
in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of
the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." Galatians 2:20
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(Inspirational submitted by: Xiufen)