Where is your faith? That is the question that Jesus ask his disciples in Luke 8. They found themselves in the middle of a terrible storm and were doing everything they could to survive, while all the time Jesus was asleep in the bottom of the boat. Finally in a panic they go and wake up Jesus who simple stands and says “peace be still” and the storm stops. The disciples are amazed that Jesus has this power over nature itself. In that moment Jesus ask the question “Where is your faith?”. The things is that for many in the church that question is still being ask, Where is our faith? In a world where the advancements of science and technology would seem to say we do not need the faith of the church of yesterday I would dare say we are in more need of faith today.
First we have to realize that the Hebrew writer in 11:1 tells us that faith is real, it is a substance, it is evidence. Faith is not an emotion or a feeling that comes over us, but faith is something that we can hold to. Second, if faith is real then it is something that we can lose just as the disciples did during that terrible storm. Most of the time we never realize as little faith we have until we are in the mist of a storm. Then and only then do we come to the realization that our faith is low or that it is missing all together. The times when we need it the most. So how do we make sure that we have the faith that we need, and where does our faith come from.
Well Paul says in Romans 10:17 “Faith comes by hearing; and hearing by the Word of God”. Now many times when we read this we only thing of the Bible. If we read the Bible then we will have greater faith, and though that is true, there is more to it than just readying your Bible. Remember when Paul writes these words there was no written Bible for masses. You see the Word as John told us in John 1 is Jesus Himself. John said that the ‘Word came and dwell among us”. Faith comes by hearing the Word, or hearing Jesus. Faith comes when our knowledge of Jesus and our relationship with Jesus grows. When reading the Bible is more than just reading but when it becomes a time of knowing Jesus in a more intimate way. When we know Him we trust Him, and when we trust Him then we have faith in Him. The disciples had been with the master and they had seen all that He could do and yet they had little to no understanding of the power that He had and had given to them. They lost their faith because they had failed to really know Him. When we know Him then we have Faith. So get to know Him better and your faith will grow.
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