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Faith Grand

I visited tonight in the home where there stood an old church pew in the foyer that looked just perfect in its spot as though the house had been built around the pew.  Stenciled across the full length of the pew was a Scottish statement that amazed me, both by its simplicity and equally by its depth.  It read simply, "Ye can'na be faith grand and comfortable." The statement confused me at first, but praise God and pass the William Wallace kidney pie, I figured it out.  Do you know what the statement means?  It means, "You can't possess great faith and at the same time live a comfortable life."  How true!  A person of faith will respond in action to the commands of His Lord to pick up his cross and follow Him daily.  A person of grand faith will be willing to be persecuted for identifying oneself with Christ.  A person of grand faith will take on issues of injustice in our culture.  A person of grand faith will offer one's leisure and comfort to God to do His will.  As G.K. Chesterton said, "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; rather, it has been found difficult and left untried."  Are you a person who is faith grand or just comfortable?   

Posted on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 by Bruce Cote

3 comments (Add your own)

1. Therone wrote:
Romans 12:3
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

I view faith as a muscle that must be exercised. When unused, it becomes weak. I need to continue to write a list of those things God has done in my life when faced with a lack of faith. The Holy Bible clearly states that God has given you and I(without us asking for it) a measure of faith. Now it's up to us to excise it through belief and excise it through actions.

Blessings,
Therone

September 19, 2009 @ 11:04 AM

2. Frank wrote:
Hi Bruce, I think you should up-date your Blog Photo.

September 30, 2009 @ 4:12 PM

3. Holly Campbell wrote:
I loved your analogy about the pew bench and wanted to add a further reflection. Perhaps the hard bench is simply the hard spots in everyday circumstances. Grand faith learns the secret of contentment, by learning humility and patience, on the hard benches of life. It isn't only the heroic side of our faith where we single handedly change the culture. Such a puny Christian I am then. But I can take on the little discomforts that come to me in the day, and think of them differently now and "sit" in them by grace. I love it even more now that we have real pew benches in our church. You should take that photo and put it up on the screen with the lovely scottish verse and teach it to us all. Bless you dear brother in Christ.

October 22, 2009 @ 8:11 AM

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