Forty Days Full - An Invitation To Real Life

It’s like He gave us super-human powers. We can now participate in the divine nature. (2 Peter 1:4)

In a world that runs on works and wages, Jesus communicates a higher value. The Jews were asking, what do we have to do to satisfy this demanding God? Jesus was not saying there's not work to be done, but was revealing what has always been the path to the heart of God. True lovers of God have always found the way through faith. Our beliefs are the foundation under everything we do. Our actions and behaviors may look good on the outside, but without the right underpinnings they may be just dead works. Some say, 'seeing is believing' (I've got to see it to believe it), But the truth is believing is seeing (my reality will be changed if I can see through the eyes of faith). Then the Lord said to Joshua, "See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.” Joshua 6:2 NIV Joshua had an encounter with God. When the Lord told him Jericho was delivered into his hands, the city was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. God was asking him to see something that had not yet happened. At that moment it seemed like an impossibility. They were not a people used to war. They had no siege engines. There was no way inside the city and this was the first city they would face in the promised land. Joshua was told to see something that could not be seen. This is what we face when a history of failure is stacked against us. Jesus is asking, "What do you see?" Believing in Him and His promises will require the same kind of faith that Joshua embraced when he trusted God to do a miracle.