Christian principles: they found a miracle although there was love without faith

My mother in law lives with us. She is worried about what the doctors call dementia. This often crushes her ability to walk in faith. Personal fears and anxieties build up beyond your sense of reason. Although we speak of God and the power of Jesus to sustain us through our trials; Although she is saved and clings to the unchanging hand of God, there are times when her love for Him is a love that has no faith. Sometimes the hope of a miracle comes to an end. She imagines an endless trial. Maybe you can recognize the battle from her.

We all get confused sometimes. There are moments, maybe even minutes, hours, or days when we feel that God has left us empty-handed. Our love is strong. God is still our eternal God. But our faith in his promise is shaken. As with my mother-in-law, we may even decide that he has let us down, and that the darkness of the road has already won the victory over promises.

The answers we want are not seen. The evidence of past victories seems to have faded from our memory. There seems to be no end to pain, fear and suffering. Worry and doubt overwhelm our hope. We cry and cry and live in sadness. The moans are too loud for human speech to fully express. God’s love is in us, but there is no longer hope in miracles.

Believing that one can love God but not have faith may seem impossible, even unbiblical. More questionable still may be the belief that God’s plans will proceed with or without your faith. Then follows this brief glimpse into a time when they found a miracle, indeed the greatest miracle of all, through which within them was only one love that had lost its faith. Thought recorded more than once, here is the account as given in the book of Luke:

“Now in the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the tomb, bringing the aromatic spices that they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. And going in, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass that being very perplexed by this, behold, two men stood by them in resplendent garments; and as they were afraid, and prostrated themselves their face to earth, they said to them: Why do you seek among the dead the one who lives? He is not here, but has risen: remember what he spoke to you while he was still in Galilee, saying: It is necessary that the Son of man be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and rise again on the third day. And they remembered his words, “(Luke 24:1-8).

Can you see the depth of his love for the fallen Savior? Yes, for them he was fallen, dead, defeated by the world and by evil men, and buried like a finished and fruitless dream. They knew his promises. They had seen many of his miraculous works. They had within their hearts an undying love for his person, but within them there was no faith in his promise to rise again.

They came to him in the morning, their spirit and soul heavy with grief. They came to the grave of a dead man, and they came without expecting a miracle. See how confused they are when they discover a stone removed and an empty tomb of his body. “Perplexed” is the word of the Scriptures; And fear”. What a sad time it is when Christians are empty of faith.

However, there are times when only love keeps us from falling. There are times when his invisible hand makes love our only source of energy. Yes, there are times when we have already surrendered to the defeat of mind and spirit, and to the hope that is our eternal promise. However, love sustains; and it is enough.

See how, even in the weakness of the loss of faith, our God remains faithful to his word. Everyone he loves will love him, because he has put a new heart in us:

“But this will be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law within him, and write it on his heart; and I will be his God, and they shall be my people “(Jeremiah 31:33).

The promise is for Israel, but it encompasses anyone who is called before the Lord as circumcised in heart.

“Why do you search among the dead live?” the angels said. “He is not here, but has risen: remember what he spoke to you while he was still in Galilee, saying: The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and rise on the third day. “

When our faith is gone, and all hope is past, the love of God within us will sustain us. The miracle came despite their weakness, their unbelief and their trembling hearts. And after he came, “…they remembered his words.”

Perhaps one of the greatest works of God is when his people find a miracle through faithless love. Trust him. He is faithful. Our weaknesses will not undo his goodness in our lives. If you can believe, then do it. If you can have hope, then hold on to it. But if all that is left is love, do not fear because the eyes of God are still upon you.