Increase Our Faith!

A popular author and Pastor recalled the day when a Church-member approached him after the Sunday service. “I wish I had half as much faith as you,” the member admitted. The clergyman said he felt like laughing and quickly explained that while he may serve as Pastor, his faith is at times as rickety as Doubting Thomas. “Like so many,” he said, “sometimes I find it challenging to maintain any level of real trust in God, in the church, or in my own decision to follow Christ.” And then he added, “sadly, living in this insane asylum we call planet earth is enough to grind the truest believer into the dust.”

An honest yet jarring assessment to which many of us can no doubt relate. So how do we do it? How do we keep the faith when it is sometimes so hard to believe? The pastor continued, “We believe because we have chosen to believe. We will never understand all there is about…