Almost each weekday-noon my wife and I have a fine dining experience at Taco Bell. It’s close to our school. It’s cheap. It’s fast. And if you select wisely it is fairly nutritious. Yesterday I said to the girl who takes our order, “Isn’t it amazing that I give you a small piece of paper and in return you feed us?”
“What,” she said. “What are you talking about?”
Apparently she had never stopped to ponder our monetary system. When I explained to her the five dollar bill I had given her was nothing but a piece of paper she seemed a bit dazed. The only difference between a five and a twenty are the printed symbols. The entire system works on faith.
Recently I had a student who claimed he didn’t live by faith. He wasn’t a faith person. He was a realist who only dealt in tangibles and things he could qualify and quantify. I think you can guess what I next asked him.
“Did you buy lunch today? What did you use to pay for it?” His answer was even more intangible than faith in money. He used a credit card. He got his lunch with the sweep of piece of plastic. Talk about faith!
All of us live by faith in so many things. Just driving is an act of faith. Cars rush by us with the force of a hundred miles an hour. We are going fifty one way and they are doing fifty coming toward us. The only thing that separates us from instant death is a small yellow line of paint. Talk about faith!
So why not experience the ultimate act of faith? Let Jesus save you. Let Him give you eternal life. Let Him forgive your sins. You are already living by faith.
Written by Roger Bothwell on February 18, 2010
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
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