Immediately the father of the child cried out, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
(Mark 9.24
NRSV)
Somewhere I read about the manager of an opera house who
received a telephone call from a woman following a performance.
She had lost a diamond pin. Might it still be in the theater? The
manager asked her to wait on the line while they looked in the
area where she had been seated. Sure enough, in a few minutes
someone came across the beautiful piece of jewelry. When the
manager returned to the phone to tell the lady the good news, the
line was dead. She had hung up. Amazingly, she never called back,
either. Though the pin had been found, the manager was unable to
return it to her.
How sad. How sad it also is to realize that the eternal God
has provided a way for us to know our sins forgiven and to know
the joy of His presence in our lives, but many of us still live
defeated lives, desperate lives, empty lives because we refuse to
hear the good news. Somebody once said that Columbus discovered a
new world, Copernicus discovered a new heaven, and Luther, a new
God--a God gracious for the sake of the work of Christ. Salvation
is by faith alone. Believe on Him and you will be saved.
God of love, I believe. Help me in my unbelief. Amen.
Ron
Newhouse
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