Because of Unbelief
by Leah S. Carpenter
“And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.” Mt. 13:58
Is it so in our lives? Troubles surround us and we are not delivered. Sickness is present, and we are not healed. Loved ones are lost, and Christ is not calling them. Dear ones are backsliding, and they have not returned. We grieve and we cry, but God does not work: where are the miracles? Is it because of our unbelief? Is our lack of faith limiting God? He will allow us to limit him by our lack of faith, you know. If we ask in unbelief, we are not genuinely asking and God will not bless. Not worth asking means not worth having. Let us ask in faith, not wavering, that our Father may freely give us all things, as he desires. He stands ready, waiting, eager to give what we ask, to reveal what we seek, to open when we knock according to his will, even as a father who waits for his child to ask for help. Trust him, try him, and he will perform miracles for you. Ask in faith, begging for crumbs (*) of God’s power even when it seems he is denying you, until he says “be it unto thee even as thou wilt.” (Mt. 15:22-28). Let it not be said of our lives that God did not many mighty works because of our unbelief.
Just Crumbs
Is it so in our lives? Troubles surround us and we are not delivered. Sickness is present, and we are not healed. Loved ones are lost, and Christ is not calling them. Dear ones are backsliding, and they have not returned. We grieve and we cry, but God does not work: where are the miracles? Is it because of our unbelief? Is our lack of faith limiting God? He will allow us to limit him by our lack of faith, you know. If we ask in unbelief, we are not genuinely asking and God will not bless. Not worth asking means not worth having. Let us ask in faith, not wavering, that our Father may freely give us all things, as he desires. He stands ready, waiting, eager to give what we ask, to reveal what we seek, to open when we knock according to his will, even as a father who waits for his child to ask for help. Trust him, try him, and he will perform miracles for you. Ask in faith, begging for crumbs (*) of God’s power even when it seems he is denying you, until he says “be it unto thee even as thou wilt.” (Mt. 15:22-28). Let it not be said of our lives that God did not many mighty works because of our unbelief.
Just Crumbs
Just crumbs was all she asked that day
When she a miracle sought;
The truth of His mercy and who He was
She had firmly caught.
A dog she knew herself to be,
Unworthy before Him to come,
Yet she knew the miracle to Him
Was nothing more than crumbs.
She came to Christ in simple faith,
Believing all He had done,
And what she asked was to His power
Nothing more than crumbs.
Have I faith enough to ask
For nothing more than crumbs,
Just as the Gentile woman asked
Believing on the Son?
Give me faith, O Lord, I pray
That in faith I may come
Humbly asking, as this woman did,
For nothing more than crumbs.
Matthew 15:21-28
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