I find that I have severely underestimated the value of raw faith. The kind of faith that has nothing yet everything to do with belief... the kind of faith that says I know what is right and I'm going to do it no matter if I believe it or not, no matter how i feel about it. Reckless trust that just puts a situation back into God's hands. I think this is a part of being after God's own heart, something precious and genuine that he values. Yesterday I read in 1 Peter 1:6-7 ...
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
It's at that crucial point where authenticity is tested and tried.... when we make the choice in our sufferings to do what is right. Whether it's taking a thought captive to the obedience of Christ or physically turning away from something, or clinging onto His perspective for dear life, that is where we find out if we and He are for real. Lip service and nice religious sentiment are exposed and shown as their true flimsy selves. That is what I love so much about God is that He sees right through us and is only concerned with what is authentic. That His truth is so real that it can stand up to anything, and that truth is the material of that mustard-seed faith He plants in us.
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