Faith Knows the Final Score
Faith Knows the Final Score
How would you watch a game if you knew beforehand that your team had already won?
A person knew he was going to miss an important sports event, so he had it recorded to watch at a later time. However, before watching the game, he inadvertently found out that his team had won. How would news of his team’s victory affect his watching of the game?
How would he react if his team played poorly in the first half? Would he get nervous? Not if he was confident in what he had heard. He would know that a turnaround was on the way. He would have the knowledge and confidence, that no matter how bad it may look, something would have to happen to give his team the victory. In fact, instead of becoming nervous, he would become excited, anticipating that miraculous turnaround moment. He would know that it had to occur because his team had already won!He has this confidence because he is now watching the game backward, from the perspective of the known ending. Everything now is being viewed in relation to the knowing that his team has already won. The only remaining unknown is the manner in which it will happen. The moment he found out that his team had won, winning stopped being a possibility (a hope), and instead became a known fact, which is the basis of faith. How silly would it be to watch a rerun of a game where you already knew your team had won, and still worry about whether they will win?
Everything now is being viewed in relation to the knowing that his team has already won.
His trust in the victory is determined by his level of trust in the source of the news. If the source was credible, he could be extremely confident. If, on the other hand, the source was, say, a stray comment overheard from a stranger, he could have room to doubt. In other words, the weight of the observed circumstances only matters if the information source is not trusted or credible. The only thing that matters is how well he heard and how trusted is the source. Everything depends on that and that alone.
“…I believe God that it will turn out exactly as I have been told.” Paul –Acts 27:25
Being in faith is much like watching this recorded sports event. We watch the players sweat and strain and run back and forth. There are moments when things look good, and moments when things do not look so good, but in the end, it is all irrelevant, we know who wins.Faith is not merely being ability to watch a game with confidence or with a positive attitude.Faith is not mustering confidence or trying to ignore the losing moments. It is not trying to speak courageously of victory through personal strength and discipline when all appears lost.This has no foundation. Faith is not something you muster on your own from within, it is something you receive from without.
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I really hope someone gets ahold of this because it is the truth. Faith knows the final score. It has to know it. When I am in Faith over something you could not pry it off of me with iron bars. I know I've got it and I watch it come in and that is before the game even starts. It is a done deal. Believe God!! Faith knows the final score.
