Another lesson I learned from my motorcycle's new center stand was trusting in what you cannot see.
When you first push the stand down and then go to level the bike on it, this can be a little unnerving. I cannot see the stand, I have to trust that the bike won't go toppling over away from me. This is counter intuitive to the kickstand. You see the kickstand, you lean the bike on it. With this, I'm leveling the bike on something I cannot see.
The funny thing is, the bike is actually very stable on the center stand, before it even gets popped up on it!
Then it is not enough to believe the bike will stay up, I have to put that belief into action. I have to pull up on the bike. I can't just stand there and say, "Yes it should work..." I have to have faith.
And faith requires action.
Faith in the Lord is the same thing. We can say that we believe all we like, but when we activate that belief and put it to an action, we are truly living our faith in the Lord. We can't just stand there reading the word and not doing what it says. Faith doesn't work that way.
"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." Heb 11:1 (NIV)
What are you holding back on? Are you waking by sight... or faith?
2 Cor 5:7 For we live by faith, not by sight (NIV)
