Holding onto Sand

Time is like sand slipping through our fingers. We try so hard to hold it tighter but no matter how tightly we hold on it still slips through. Every day we lose a little more and none of us knows how much we have left.

But the sand has value. Its the most valuable thing we have but we know we can't hold it so we trade it for other worthless junk that we can't hold. We use it to buy toys, or friends, or memories but these things are no better. Toys become trash, friends leave or die or worse, and memories fade as the sand slowly (or quickly) leaves our hand.

If you could trade all the sand in your had for something eternal would you do it?

Mark 8:35 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

Faith Always Works

Those who believe will see things that those who don't believe will never see. Faith works every time. Every prayer is a step. We often don't see the answer to our prayer because we stopped taking steps. Perhaps we take a single step, look around and decide that God isn't in this one. Or perhaps we give up after only praying for 10 years. If we truly believe we'll keep taking steps. Taking steps is called walking. Taking steps of faith is called walking in faith. 

Healing the sick is the afterthought. He wanted to do so much more but He could only heal a few sickos. What "Mighty Work" would He do if we truly believed. So often we just want Him to give us comfort when we're suffering. We don't even know that we're settling for crumbs. 

"And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them and he marveled because of their unbelief." Mark 6:5,6