A room already filling… with Word… some stenciled…
… some not…
A call to add another…
A much needed reminder… to be placed… on the wall opposite the door… the wall seen each time the room is entered… a wall often covered… with piles…
The Word previously placed… most of it took time… printing font… making a stencil… cutting with x-acto…
But today… I was to free-hand a stencil… no “word perfect” font allowed…
Supplies gathered… I began to plan… straight lines… a canon to follow… then several attempts at free-hand font… no success… frustration creeping in…
The thought… not mine… continues to come… just cut…
So I began… cutting letters… one at a time… not even able to see what I’ve done because of all the practice with pencil… and… pen…
By faith… I cut… If this is You… it will be finished…
By faith… I continued… letters appearing…
By faith… we obey… and that’s when things happen…
Just ask the Levites… stepping into a flood-stage river… carrying the Ark… crossing into the Promised Land… the step based on a promise received by faith…
(emphasis added)
Acting in obedience… there is no faith without it… to live by faith… is to step when… and where… it seems most unreasonable… to take time to cut… and stencil… when it makes no sense…
Finished… still unsure what it looks like… I tape the free-hand to the wall… with paint… and brush… I begin…
The lesson… one I was just reading… confirmed…
For faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.
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