F Rated. F, for Faith.

“Now the just shall live by faith: But if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.” Hebrews‬ ‭10‬:‭38‬ ‭KJV‬‬

“Faith is spelled R-I-S-K! It’s like jumping off he diving board and trusting God to fill the pool before you land.” – John Wimber

“ A great thing, a thing that if God does not help you will fail, that is the thing you are called to do.” – Hudson Taylor

In the true and perhaps, the rawest Hebrew 11 hall of fame sense; faith, is a foolhardy move, often very extreme. Or a gamble – often, of a high stake nature, taken based on conviction on God and his word, that very often come with unavoidable and yet quite regularly very dire, and irreparable consequences. Such that if God doesn’t come through there’s no escaping the catastrophic consequences!

What if rain didn’t fall for Noah? Aside from being forever labelled a cuckoo, he would have wasted an irrecoverable time and resources; not only his, but his family’s!

What a disaster it would have been, if a 75 year old Abraham was never shown any land? What if he wasn’t stopped when he put a knife to Isaac?

What a calamity it would have been for the Israelites and even for Moses himself if he bombed out in front of Pharaoh? What if the Red Sea never parted? What inanity it was for Moses and Joshua to lead a bunch of wilderness pilgrims to take on the kings and superpowers of their days?

Gideon whittled down an army of 32,000 men down to a mere 300 to face the Midianites, an enemy so vast and that the Bible said in Judges 6:5 NIV “… it was impossible to count them or their camels; ….”

Although David picked five stones; in reality, he only had only one shot, because as the saying goes, “if you come for the king, you best not miss.” In such high stake warfare; do-overs, second chances are unavailable luxuries. What if David missed?

I’m sure you have heard of the folly of bringing a knife to a gunfight? May I tell you something even crazier and straight up suicidal? There was once a King Jehoshaphat that substituted frontline combat soldiers for a praise and worship team!

What if upon Mt. Carmel fire never came down for Elijah?

What if Daniel and his friends ended up faring worse than those that fed on the royal diet? What if the 3 Hebrew boys never made it out of the fire alive, or Daniel ravaged by the lions?

Peter, acting on Jesus’ word, stepped on water and didn’t route his path closer to the shore or any other boat, hence when he doubted, down was the only place to go.

Ananias, despite his initial objections believed Jesus and took his own life in his hands and went in to pray for Saul, ever before it was full public knowledge that the murderous Saul of Tarsus was a changed man. What if Ananias had walked straight right into the lion’s lair? 

What ifs? What ifs? What ifs? The what if possibilities are infinite.

However, for these men, and other men and women of faith in Hebrews 11 and down the ages, confidence and conviction in God and his word, in full cognizance of the possibility of these dire consequences acted as if the ‘what ifs’ outcomes did not exist.

While not discounting any other form of expressing one’s faith in God; but for any specific act of faith to make the cut for the Hebrews 11 gold standard; to a very large extent, there can never be a backup plan, a segue or an offramp to a soft landing. There must be a clear and present possibility of a failure, and sometimes, a spectacular one at that!

Yet, turbocharged by nothing else but one’s faith in God and his word, one takes the headlong plunge declaring like Esther ‘if I perish, I perish’ and “those who say if I perish, I perish; never perish” said Benson Idahosa. Or, like the 3 Hebrew boys in Daniel 3 “the God we serve is able to deliver us and he will deliver us but even if he does not, we will still not bow.”

That is why, you have to be more than quadruply sure that it is God that is beckoning you to act, if not, a catastrophe awaits!

I bid you Godspeed as you mark your spot in the Hebrews 11 line up, you are right on the path of the greats! As said by Hudson Taylor, a man regarded as one of the most important and influential missionaries of all time, ” … that is the thing you are called to do.”

“…but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.” Daniel‬ ‭11‬:‭32‬b KJV

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