Faith - Possible or Impossible?

Paul writes in the book of Hebrews that faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see, and that without faith it is IMPOSSIBLE to please God.
Faith is a hard thing sometimes. That's because we don't trust that God will be able to do what we can't. That's a form of practical atheism. I've heard the verse, "faith without works is dead" taken so far out of context when it comes to trusting God. It's often used as an excuse for not believing. But how strong is our faith if we only trust God for the things that we deem possible? In whom is our faith if we limit our dreams to only the things we can achieve? I think that if our dreams are only in the realm of "possibility", we have a lukewarm, watered down faith in ourselves, not in God. Faith in God is characterized by words like, "impossible, incredible and undoable". Only if your dreams seem "imossible, incredible and undoable", and failure is an absolute certainty unless God gets involved, do you have real faith in Him. I'm not advocating being reckless or stupid. Not every dream you have is God's dream. And certainly we don't sit around on our hands until God drops something from the sky. What I'm talking about is hearing from God and then trusting Him to work in and thru us and others to bring His plan into being. And I don't know about you, but it seems the further along I get in the process the larger the steps of faith I have to take. Dreams, visions, plans and decisions never get easier. That's because God's desire is that we live in desperation for Him, not in exasperation because we live for ourselves. It's not about what we can do. It's all about what He can do. And with God, all things are possible - even the impossible.

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