*EXCELLENT LIFE KEYS* 🔑🗝️
Tue/05th/April/2022
*Francis Reign* (Ap & Coach)
_"Raising excellent agents of change and transformation, well equipped with Truth and Wisdom."_
*UNDERSTANDING THE ACTS AND WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST (72)*
_"When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel"_ (Matt 8:10). What an amazing statement: Jesus marveled. God is certainly never surprised, but Jesus was both fully God and fully man. He shared the human capacity to be amazed - to be emotionally impacted by what He saw and heard. In this case, Jesus is amazed by the rock-solid faith of the Roman centurion. The centurion had just expressed his understanding that Jesus had absolute authority over the natural world. He could simply speak a command and it would be carried out over any distance. While the centurion makes it clear that he wants a particular outcome and knows that Jesus can do it, his faith is not really about the outcome. He doesn't go in declaring that Jesus will do this. He just affirms that Jesus can. His faith isn't in the outcome, but in the Lord. Not in the what, but in the who. And that's what makes it great.
The centurion had a revelation of Jesus' Lordship that made him confident of His ability. He knew Jesus could heal, because he understood Jesus' authority. But his faith wasn't in the healing itself, nor was it in the strength or power of his own belief. He didn't come to Jesus saying, "Lord, I know you can heal, because I believe so strongly." Faith is only as valuable as its object. Our faith is valuable because it is faith in a God who actually deserves it. Faith in and of itself is not valuable. I may have unswerving faith in the Easter Bunny, but that faith is useless. Faith in God is the most valuable thing we have, because it places us in relationship with the Maker of the universe and the One who loves us incomparably. Faith isn't a blind leap or a strong-willed commitment to a dogma. Faith isn't clinging to an outcome at all costs. It's trust in a Person (God) who is worthy of trust. It's commitment to Someone (God) who is committed to us. Faith is a relationship issue.
*EXCELLENCE KEY* 🗝️
_The revelation of WHO Jesus is has more value than getting WHAT we want._
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*Excellence is within you. Bring it out >>*
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