An excerpt from my book, One Arm One Leg 100 Words, Overcoming Unbelievable Hardships”
I believe there is this thing called now faith, which is different than past faith or future faith. It is faith for the here and now. For example, it is one thing to believe that God saved your soul way back then, which would be past faith. It is another thing to believe that one day you will be going to heaven. That is future faith. Now faith is the faith that it takes to believe that your rent will be paid now when it is due… it is the most difficult faith to acquire. I’m not saying that it should be the most difficult to acquire, I’m just saying that most people have trouble believing that God can take care of their problems right now.
There is a story in the Bible of when Jesus’ friend Lazarus died. His sisters Martha and Mary asked Jesus why he delayed in his coming. They said that if Jesus had only been there sooner, their brother would still be alive (past faith).
Jesus told them that Lazarus would live again. They replied that they already knew that their brother would rise again in the resurrection (future faith). Then Jesus asked them where their brother was buried, basically asking them to take Him to where their faith died (now faith). He then proceeded to raise Lazarus from the dead, showing us all that He is able to supply us with our urgent now needs right now.
That is how Charlene and I made it through all of these trials — one day at a time and one miracle at a time — having now faith every single day. Oh sure, there were some days that we may have struggled with our now faith and momentarily forgot about God’s promises, but then we would feel the anxiousness of fear begin to creep into our spirits and start to rob us of our joy and peace.
That would remind us to run, not walk, back to His promises and His presence. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the confidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1). God only lives in the present (the now), and our faith must live in the now as well. That is why His name is, “I am,” as told to Moses in the book of Exodus.
This is just a another chapter of my book “One Arm One Leg 100 Words, Overcoming Unbelievable Hardships”. You can buy the book by clicking this link. And surely, you will not stop reading it from the beginning till the end of this book.