What We Believe

Then David praised the LORD in the presence of the whole assembly: “O LORD, the God of our ancestor Israel, may you be praised forever and ever! Yours, O LORD, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is yours, O LORD, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things. Wealth and honor come from you alone, for you rule over everything. Power and might are in your hand, and at your discretion people are made great and given strength. [1 Chronicles 29.10-12]

This passage makes clear that God is over everything. There exists a real problem lying within our belief about this being true.

The secularization of the world has distracted mankind from the truth spoken in 1 Chronicles 29.10-12. Man's knowledge has grown disproportionately more than his spirit to the point that man has reasoned that God only exists in some abstract realm and therefore has no bearing on anything of substance (let alone control everything). 

This Godless mindset just described has infiltrated the Church as well. People "of faith" are just as secular as everyone else evidenced by their faith and trust in the systems and solutions of man's ingenuity and knowledge. So secular has the Church become that her people claim God is Healer but that His method of doing so is modern medicine. The Church claims God is Provider but utilizes man's system of finance and credit. There is no conviction that this claimed healing or provision depends heavily upon man and his systems. There is no accountability for faith as Jesus demonstrated it. There is instead an ideology that life is what we make it as opposed to being what God gives or withholds at His discretion (in His pleasure or displeasure respectively). The Church has become calloused to the literal mountain-moving faith Jesus taught and demonstrated and has instead adopted a non-Biblical abstract faith as the centerpiece of its powerless religion.

Instead of understanding that God owns everything and therefore controls everything as Ruler of His Kingdom, people today have proudly assigned wealth and honor to the determination or dedication of man to that end. Consequently, man has become obsessed with "self" in nearly every realm of life. Saying, "it isn't so" changes nothing of the fact that man has become his own god.

We need to repent of our secularization. We need to make conscious choices to reject faith in man in order to enjoy tangible faith in God. But that's a scary thought, huh?

Father, may we find ourselves growing in our belief that YOU are our everything. Help us to do that by rejecting the world and its systems so that we might trust ONLY in You. May our faith depart from the realm of "abstract" and instead yield substance!