“Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.”
(Mark 5:34, NLT)
Maybe all you have [is] a crazy hunch and a high hope. You have nothing to give. But you are hurting. And all you have to offer him is your hurt.
If that describes you, note carefully … one person [whom Christ] commended … for having faith. It wasn’t a wealthy giver. It wasn’t a loyal follower. It wasn’t an acclaimed teacher. It was a shame-struck, penniless outcast – [a woman who had been bleeding for twelve years] – who clutched onto her hunch that he could and her hope that he would.
Which, by the way, isn’t a bad definition of faith. A conviction that he can and a hope that he will.
(from Grace For The Moment, by Max Lucado, page 43)
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That is the best definition of faith I have ever read – conviction and hope. Thank you for sharing, Joanne.
I thought so too when I read it this week. May we grow in both conviction and hope –> greater faith.
Yes, I like that definition of faith!!
Max Lucado said it so simply and yet most powerfully.