Let It Be Done To You

Meditations for Ragamuffins

November 24, 2023

Let It Be Done To You 

“According to your faith let it be done to you.”

Matthew 9: 29b (NRSV) 

“According to your faith let it be done to you.” Jesus said those words to two blind men. They had asked Jesus to have mercy on them, “and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord” (Matthew 9:28b NRSV). Then Jesus touched them, and their eyes were opened. This is the faith, let it be done to you faith, that I want to have active and abiding in my life.

Now faith is not our means to unlock the genie from his bottle. Faith most certainly is not our means to manipulate God into doing what we want. Faith is how we open our lives to receive all that God wants to do in and through our lives. Godly faith will never deviate from God’s sovereign will in our lives.

How can we develop this, let it be done to you faith? Matthew, chapter 6, is a great place to start. In just thirty-four verses, Matthew refers to God as Father twelve times. Remember, in Jesus’ culture, the name of God was never spoken. The only record the Jews had of God’s name was the four consonants that were used to spell God’s name in their scriptures (Generally rendered as LORD in English translations of the Old Testament). It was almost blasphemy for Jesus to teach his disciples to call God, “Father.” Jesus has torn down some mighty barriers that separated people from God.

Jesus is showing us that through faith in God as our Father, our needs for love, acceptance and a sense of self-worth can be fulfilled in ways we never dreamed were possible. Jesus is showing us that through faith in God as our Father, we can experience God’s complete love and acceptance of us as His beloved child. Jesus is showing us that our relationship with God is all about trust. Can I trust God with all my life? It is one thing to serve a god that only gives me a list of moral and ethical standards to obey. Jesus is showing us another way; he is showing us that we can trust God, our loving Heavenly Father, with our life, our family, our job, our retirement, and our future.

My Takeaway: Growing in a loving, trusting relationship with our Heavenly Father, who is head-over-heels in love with us, will birth let it be done to you faith within us.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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