By Pastor Bill
“Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you.”— Matthew 8:13
When you think about faith, what comes to mind? Do you trust the Lord?
The following letter was found in a baking-power can wired to the handle of an old pump that offered the only hope of drinking water on a very long and seldom-used trail across Nevada’s Amargosa Desert: “This pump is all right as of June 1932. I put a new sucker washer into it and it ought to last five years. But the washer dries out and the pump has got to be primed. Under the white rock I buried a bottle of water, out of the sun and cork end up. There’s enough water in it to prime the pump, but not if you drink some first. Pour about one-fourth and let her soak to wet the leather. Then pour in the rest medium fast and pump like crazy. You’ll git water. The well has never run dry. Have faith. When you git watered up, fill the bottle and put it back like you found it for the next feller. (signed) Desert Pete. P.S. Don’t go drinking the water first. Prime the pump with it and you’ll git all you can hold.”
For this Roman centurion here in chapter 8, I am sure that he had plenty of needs himself, but instead of coming and demanding Jesus He touches him personally he came and primed the pump… He asked Jesus to heal His servant. Sometimes as believers in a me first world we forget the truth of God’s Word. Luke 17:33 “Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.” Proverbs 11:25 “He who refreshes others, they themselves will be refreshed.”
What about you? Have you fallen into a me first mentality? Are you trusting yourself to get you what you believe you deserve or have you laid down all your efforts and gifts at the foot of Jesus and said, “Lord, not my will but Your will be done.”
By His Spirit,
Pastor Bill