Hebrews 3 | What am I going to do about it?

There are many times in my past where I have been called to action on something. Whether it be that I was lazy, didn't actually care, or simply didn't know how to begin, I found a trend in my heart. I would wait for something to take place in me before I started to move on something. Instead of letting the change be in my action, I delayed in prayer. For subjects like "Believers Believe" I would pray the prayer, "Lord, help my unbelief!" After praying that, I would wait. I would hope to believe. If I found any doubt, I would then write it off as the Lord hasn't given that to me yet. When He is ready for me to believe it, He will give it to me. What I failed to see with that man who spoke those words to Jesus, "...help my unbelief," was very much walking by faith already. He was not passive, but active. And that is exactly what the writer of Hebrews is calling us to do.

Faith is actionable. There are things you can do to reinforce your faith. How can you say you believe the Lord heals if you never pray for healing? And how will that belief grow unless you begin to pray for someone's healing and people are getting healed? How can we say that we believe in the power of prayer if it is only used in our most dire of situations and casually before family dinner? And how can we see prayer in power unless we are truly praying without ceasing? So we see there is a difficult balance. We tend to not do the things we don't actually believe, but in doing those things our faith would be reinforced. What do we do here?

Many of our issues stem from how fleshly our perspective is. We walk by sight. We want to see that we believe, and we will not believe unless we see what we ought to believe in. That old man really loves to come up in this way. Rather than putting the flesh to death and letting the old man perish in its unbelief, we put it on a pedestal and exalt Christian skepticism. This needs to come to an end. We must take the position of belief as believers. If there is an evil heart of unbelief in us, let us remember that it leads to departing from the living God.

What application are you implementing today?