Faith in?

 

But Jesus said, “Someone touched me, for I perceive that power has gone out from me.” And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed. And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”   Luke 8:46-48 (ESV) God knows our pain, and He knows how to deal with our pain. He can relieve our pain or use our pain to make us strong. He can demonstrate His faithfulness though our pain, or use our pain to communicate with us. Some take these verses and put the cause of this woman’s healing on the woman’s back due to the fact that she has faith. They will take a passage like this and exhort others to have more faith in order to get God to give them what they want. Yet faith is a byproduct, not something we can produce for a moment. Faith comes from hearing the Word of God and applying it. Our faith is not in our ability to have faith, but in what God has said, what God has and is doing, and in God’s power, ability, love, mercy, and grace. Knowing God produces faith. Perhaps Jesus could have said this to this woman: “You know me well and have acted in accordance with what you know. Because of that, you have been healed.” However, it was much simpler and to the point to say that her faith had healed you.   If I want more faith, I need to spend more time with God and live in the context of what I know.

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