(A response to an article on Posessing the Treasure)
A tight rope walker had his tight rope stretched over a deep ravine and an audience stood waiting so as to watch him walk the rope. To warm up the crowd he told them he was going to walk across the rope alone once and then come back and push an empty wheel barrel across for the second time, then after that he was going to push the wheel barrel with a man inside across the ravine and back. The tight rope walker went through the first phase of walking the rope alone and back to the cheering crowd. Then he asked, ” How many here believe I can push the wheel barrel across and back? ” Everyone cheered and said they believed that he could. So the tight rope walker pushed the empty wheel barrel across and back to the crowds cheering. Then the tight rope walker asked, “How many people believed he could put a man inside the wheel barrel and push him across the ravine on the wire and all the way back?” Everyone cheered and said they ‘believed’, so the tight rope walker asked for one of the cheering ‘believers’ to get in the wheel barrel and the crowd fell silent because no one really ‘believed’.
They thought they ‘believed’ but really it was ‘easy believism’, a mere ‘word’ because there was not any cost to themselves to ‘believe’.
To ‘truly’ ‘believe’ is to ‘obey and be committed to’ and be ‘faithful’.
Luke 6:46 (NKJV)
“But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say?
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