I’m convinced that many believers today go through their lives attempting to pry open pickle jars, shimmy tight windows, do the spiritual heavy lifting of life like Popeye without his good stuff.  Untapped strength.

If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move.  Nothing will be impossible for you.              Matthew 17:20

We’re told we can move mountains. Do I really have the muscles for that?

This Popeye needs her spinach for that kind of grunt work.

If I can but build the muscles of my spiritual faith, nothing will be impossible for me.  Mountains will move, lives will be altered, and, in boldness, courage, and conviction, I will walk unflinching through the fires of a storm-filled life.

This kind of faith, this kind of living, is available to me and yet I sit in fear of…so much;  my kids protection, the preservation of my ‘image,’ the guarantee of my freedoms and my ease.  Some mountains seem immovable and my faith proves so very small for the task.  

The kind of faith needed to cast aside mountains must be fully bounding, it must soar above the cares that so tempt my anxieties and human limitations, it must spring high above all the realities on which my eyes are so continually called to feast.  It must defy my sight.  (2 Corinthians 5:7)

The faith and love that spring from hope…          Colossians 1:5

For my faith to soar, the springboard of hope must give it flight.

Know God’s promises that serve as a solid foundation for our lives.  

Believe He is faithful to fulfill every one.  (That’s what biblical hope is.)

Then walk confidently amid the storms of your days knowing on what foundation your feet find their rest.

Hope is the spiritual spinach that gives muscle to our faith.

God has made promises to all believers in His Word, from His promise to work all things for the good of those who love Him (Romans 8:28) to His promise to hear us when we call to Him (Jeremiah 29:13). He also makes promises to each of us specifically, from the particulars of the doing of “good works” He has called each of us to do to any number of day-to-day or big picture promises He’s laid on your heart to claim.

The more firmly we believe Him, the more assured we are in His faithfulness and ability to stand by His Word, the more solid our biblical hope.  From this hope–not wishing-well-pipe-dreams but solidly grounded assurance–springs forth the faith to move mountains.

Explore the promises of God.  Scour His Word for solid bricks that may serve as your sure foundation.  Discover the riches and power that are available to all who believe.  Hope in these things and on that may our faith soar.

I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and His incomparably great power for us who believe.           Ephesians 1:18-19

♬ “I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able, to keep that which I’ve committed unto Him until that day.” ♬