Don't Admire My Faith. Get Hungry.

If you see faith in me, what will you do with it?

Will you see it from a distance? Will you examine it up close? Will you be curious? Will you be skeptical?

If something about my life makes you want to look closer… I hope you eventually look so close, you discover who it was drawing you nearer all along.

I pray that when you see peace where there should be fear, or joy where there should be sorrow, or hope where these wacky circumstances say there shouldn't be any… that you don't walk away impressed by my faith, or skeptical of my authenticity.

Whatever you see, I simply pray that it becomes EDIBLE.

I pray you get hungry. Hungry to know the One who could put that kind of life inside a man.

I didn't manufacture it, I couldn't possibly sustain it in my own power, and I most certainly cannot take credit for it. Not in the slightest.

It is Him. Yeshua. Emmanuel. The Messiah. The Savior. The Rock. The Light of the World. Our Kinsman-Redeemer. Jesus Christ, my King.

If there is anything beautiful growing out of this life, please don't stop at the fruit.

Follow it all the way back to the Vine.

Don't fall for the hyper-grace trap that asks nothing of your life.

Don't fall for the trap that tells you that you can work your way to Him.

Don't simply inherit another man's doctrine and call it knowing God.

Don't think all paths lead to the same place. Jesus didn't point toward the way. He said, "I am the way."

Ask Him to reveal Himself to you… pray to Him. Open the Bible and ask Him for eyes to see… put your faith in Him… learn to recognize His voice… learn to lay your life down to His will… let Him redefine all the things you have spent a lifetime insisting on defining for yourself.

Truth. Love. Goodness. Freedom. Identity. Purpose. Even life itself.

We are silly, arrogant piles of dust who somehow imagine we get to define what all of those things mean… while the One who breathed life into the dust is standing there saying, "Come, follow Me."

So don't admire my faith. Don't admire anyone's faith. Get hungry.

Follow the fruit back to the Vine and follow the hunger back to the Bread.

Come taste for yourself…

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6

"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth." John 1:14

"Jesus said to them, 'I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.'" John 6:35

"Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!" Psalm 34:8