The Black Hole of Faith

May 16, 2005

There’s a spot in the journey of faith that sometimes feels like a black hole. It generally occurs sometime between first “seeing the light” and then seeing the fulfillment of the thing we had faith for in the first place.

I was just reading Hebrews 11, the chapter where we get an overview of our Biblical ancestors and their tremendous faith. Abraham, Noah, Moses, etc.

Take Noah. I read the story. God tells him to build an ark because God’s going to send a flood. Noah builds the ark. God sends a flood and Noah and his family are the only human beings to survive. End of story. And I’m amazed at Noah’s unwavering faith…and then wonder why I struggle so much in mine.

But I breeze through the story in a matter of minutes and consequently, I overlook the fact that the whole process actually took many, many years. After all, the ark had to hold a boatload (pun intended) of animals. That was no minor building project.

There must have been days when Noah wondered if he heard God right. There must have been moments when he felt completely overwhelmed by the task at hand. There must have been times when he just couldn’t imagine a flood happening the way God said it would. There must have been days when the mocking of his neighbors really got to him.

But Noah pressed on because he had faith in God. He held on to what God told him–he didn’t doubt in the dark what he had seen in the light. Having the questions aren’t the problem. The problem comes when we put our trust in our circumstances and not in God.

Category: Deep Thoughts

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2 Responses to “The Black Hole of Faith”

  1. Brian Andrews
    May 26th, 2005 @ 12:53 pm

    “Boatload.” Dear, I had to laugh.

  2. Felecia
    June 13th, 2006 @ 1:50 am

    Amen to this post. I just ran across this blog and am being blessed thank you.

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