Daily Devotional For Today 6 October 2022: Inspirational Message and Prayer
Read Daily Devotional For Today 6 October 2022
Topic: Increase Our Faith
Scripture: Luke 17: 5-6
I bet that the apostles aren’t the only ones that would like to have more faith. Faith is sometimes difficult to sustain. There are so many factors that can lead to doubt. We see so much pain; we see an increase in natural disasters; we see more tragedies. We can ask ourselves, “Where is God in all of this?” Unfortunately, there are plenty of people who say that these are just signs that there is no God.
There are others who claim that these are signs of the end times. Either way, our faith can be shaken. People have “lost” their faith when God didn’t answer their prayers the way they wanted, or lost a loved one and can’t see how a loving God could cause them pain. God did not prevent his son Jesus from suffering.
Jesus lost his foster-father Joseph, his cousin John the Baptist, his friend Lazarus. He was scorned, abandoned, tortured and killed. Was this a sign that God didn’t love Jesus? No, in fact Jesus’ prayers from the cross show that he still trusted in God, his Father. If God didn’t prevent Jesus from suffering, why do we think he will prevent our suffering? Instead, he is with us through our pain, just as he was with Jesus.
All we need to do is ask Jesus to increase our faith just as the apostles did. We can help ourselves by reading the Gospels and learning from Jesus. We can also read the letters of Paul and the Book of Revelation all of which talk about the importance of standing firm in faith and give examples of those who did. God is always there. We just need to trust.
Prayer For Today
Faithful God, you know our human weaknesses, our tendency to doubt. We do believe, help our unbelief. Amen.
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