October 8, 2025 -Lack of Faith the Strengthens My Faith

MATTHEW 9:27-34

MARK 6:1-6

MATTHEW 13:53-58

MATTHEW 9:35-38

MARK 6:7-13

MATTHEW 10:1-42

LUKE 9:1-6

Chronological Bible Readings

Mark 6:5 He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. 6 He was amazed at their lack of faith.

There is nothing that God cannot do. When I read this the first thing I thought was "Jesus absolutely could have done any miracle that He wanted." But we have read over and over again that when Jesus heals people who seek Him out He says something to them about their faith healing them. Jesus knows every person's heart. And a heart rooted faith is what He looked at when healing. That is why there were only a few miracles done in His hometown. I liked how it is said in Matthew better.

Matthew 13:58 And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.

He knew that those who had true faith were the best people to heal in that place and time and their lack of faith is what limited the number of miracles that He did there.

Some people teach that if you are not healed or don't get the miracle you are praying for, then you don't have enough faith because of the same things I have referenced. But that is not biblical. God is so much more than us that we can't understand why and how He does things. Consider the sovereignty/omnipotence (all powerful), omniscience (all knowing), omnipresence (all present), and omnibenevolence (all goodness) of God. He has supreme, ultimate power and authority over all creation, history, and the universe, having no superior and no equal. God is all knowing. He knows how everything that happens influences everything else for all of eternity. He knows every astronomically complicated series of events from the beginning of time until Jesus returns and onward and how they all interact. Trying to comprehend that which is uncomprehensible blows my mind but the enormity of the though is why I have complete trust in Him. The fact that it makes no sense to me and that I can't even glimpse what it all means strengthens my faith. That is what I turn to when I begin to feel overwhelmed, lost, hopeless, confused stressed out and any other number of emotions that would threaten to derail me in my service to Him.

When things don't go the way that I think they should. I don't receive the answer I want in prayer. Someone I love or myself is not healed. I have to give up on a dream, and so on. It is not a lack of faith that keeps those things from happening as I want them to it is an all-loving God who knows what is not only best for me but for the entire Kingdom. And I trust Him and want what He knows is best for the Kingdom way more than I want what I think is best for me.