Warped American Faith

I woke up this morning with a woman on my heart. Jacquie Godfrey. Jacquie is a woman that used to attend Parkway Christian church. My families’ church. I didn't know Jacquie well. I don't even know where I met her the first time. I couldn't tell you her name if I saw her but I knew her smile.

Recently she went to Tennessee to attend a quilting convention. She suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while there and is now waiting in intensive care hooked up to a ventilator waiting for her family to come and pull the plug because they consider her brain dead.

I have watched Facebook blow up with prayers for healing. Her faith has touched many. What gives me pause is the speed in which everyone has shut down that faith. Or they qualify their request with "But if you don't Lord"

Now I know that the Lord wants us to be submissive to his will and know that he is in control. But I think that we have taken it a step too far. We now use those words as an excuse to get out of the niggling of disbelief that God can and will heal that lives deep in our diminished faith. Our Warped American brand of faith. This is the down fall of having everything since birth. To know what the medical community can do and can not do and somehow we have attached the limitations of what a Doctor can do to our God. That God can only work within the confines or our western medicine.

Is that what the bible says?? No NO! Mathew 17:20 says He (Jesus)replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, 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.

So what is he telling them? He is telling them that at the moment their faith was smaller that a mustard seed because they couldn't move that mountain. That scripture doesn't say, have mustard seed faith only if the Doctors agree there is hope? God doesn't need us to make excuses for his choices and abilities.

I am living breathing proof that God is still in the miracle working business. I know others that are also living breathing miracles. Some were helped by God given medical wisdom to help that miracle along but others were God alone miracles. Untouched by medicine. Miraculous and Splendid.

We wonder why in this country we don't see more miracles like they do in Africa. It's because we have so much stuff, opportunity, and wealth we have become tainted and skeptical. We have lost our faith and have replaced it with a warped American white washed faith. That isn't even as big as a mustard seed. We say what if he doesn't then people will be hurt or I will have to explain why he didn't and maybe God or Christianity will look bad.

I say shame on you. The God you believe doesn't need your PR. He needs your faith and trust and devotion. He needs to you live what you say you believe. So do it already!

End of soap box moment.