How deep is your faith?

Yesterday morning, while getting ready for church and trying to calm my four legged beast, there was a show on TV called "Spiritual Awakening."  Spiritual Awakening is a local show produced by our CBS affilitate, which showcases area gospel artists and choirs.  There was a group of about 20 singers on TV dressed in black, whose name I forget.  They were singing an upbeat number, acconmpanied with snare drums, bass guitar, and keyboard.  I had never heard this song before.  I gathered from the introduction and refrain of the song, that the title was "How deep is your faith?"

The song is catchy and was in my head most of the morning.  I began to think and ask myself; how deep is your faith?  Faith is defined as: confindence or trust in a person or thing, belief that is not based in proof, belief in God or in the doctrines of religion.  It would be a fair assumption that since this is a gospel show, that the essential question posed by the choir in this selection was "How deep is your faith in God?"  The book of Hebrews further says "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.  Indeed by faith our ancestors received approval.  By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared be the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things not visible (11:1-3).

Now that I've really gotten you confused, think on this.  Each time you sit in a chair, you have no doubt that the chair will support you and enable you to rest until you get up.  Right??  That -- on some level requires faith and confidence in the manufacturer of that chair, someone whom you have never met.  But how much faith would it take for you to believe that God will meet your every need, attend to your every care and dry every tear.  Our salvation is granted to us by faith, we take communion in faith, we pray in faith.  As saints of God, pretty much everything that we do is embedded in faith.  If it only takes faith the size of a mustard seed to move a mountain; How much faith would it take to turn your situations around and transform you from glory into glory.  Think about the closing line of Jeremiah from the movie The Preacher's Wife, starring Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston.  The last thing that Jeremiah says before the credits roll is "Just because you can't see the air does not mean it's not there."  How deep is your faith?

Peace,
Karsten