Breathing Life into Your Project

You’ve no doubt felt the urge from time to time to take a chance… because you know that along with the risk of taking that chance there is a reward!  Something inside of you says this is going to work out really great.  Your belief at that moment outweighs the fear of failure.

You were experiencing the formation of faith to meet a specific challenge.  That experience was not unlike the Lord when He formed Adam from the dust of the ground.  God believed that this formed creature called man would “turn out great”.  The “clayman” had all the necessary parts to function.  A brain was in place to think with and eyes were there to see with.  Adam had feet to walk with and hands to hold with.  He had lungs for breathing, a stomach for digesting food, and ears to hear with.  In short, he was fearfully and wonderfully made. 

But until God acted on His faith (that man could function with the formed design before him) man (Adam) could do nothing!  Until God breathed the breath of life into the nostrils of Adam, the man (though perfect that he was) could do nothing except… well, what would have happened to Adam had not God breathed life into him?

The sun would have begun to bake his moist mud form, or the rains would cause the perfectly fashioned body to become distorted, and finally the wind would have scattered this elemental man, which was fashion in God’s likeness, across the kindred earthy landscape.  Adam would be no more!!

So it is… faith has a short shelf life.  One can believe for something out of his/her mind’s design, but if it is not acted upon it will never come to fruition.  Just as the elements would have begun to immediately erode the fashioned clay body of Adam, the spiritual eroding elements of doubt, analysis, and unbelief immediately begin their destructive efforts on our “faith visions”.  How many God inspired projects of faith have been deformed by the rains of carnal analysis, dried by the hot sun of doubt, and finally blown into desolation by the winds of unbelief?  What great things would God have done had we moved in our faith instead of double-mindedly debating with ourselves the merits of God’s perfect project?  How much stronger would the church be?  How much better your life?

In the words of the old folk song… “The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind… the answer is blowin’ in the wind.”

“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”

James 2:26 

Faith then is represented by the body and works by the breath (spirit).  We may tend to have it in reverse… but it must be in the right order to work.

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