Hedging Our Beliefs

Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him. Isaiah 64:4 (NIV)

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Faced with escalating supernatural activity of the sinister and satanic sort, the family in the movie, Poltergeist, asks an academic team of ghost trackers to help them figure out what is going on in their home.
As the ghost trackers climb stairs to the second floor, a videographer enthusiastically tells the father that he once videotaped a toy car moving seven feet in seven hours. He adds this movement could never be perceived by the naked eye, but the power of it is fantastic.
The father gives the man a weary look and then opens the door to the bedroom where toys are flying around the room..
Now, don’t misunderstand the point I’m about to make, which isn’t about ghosts or whether Jesus-ones should watch movies like Poltergeist.
My point is this: We tend to hedge the power of God in our lives, settling for the godly equivalent of a Matchbox car being moved from one end of the room to another in seven hours. God’s power is barely perceptible to the naked eye, and, perhaps, we even harbor the doubt: Is that all there is?
Yet, God wants everything in our lives to dance across the room, affirming our faith and showing everyone, including the doubting shadows of our hearts, that God is a God of infinite power, the Creator, Master, and Sole Authority over the heavens and the earth.
When we hedge our belief that God is able and willing to do great and powerful things in our lives, we come close to “having a form of godliness but denying its power (2 Timothy 3:5 NIV).
Isaiah says we need to expand our expectations of God: “For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you” (Isaiah 64:3 NIV).
My friend, let’s expect great things from “him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us” (Ephesians 3:20 NIV).

the god didn't give us doubt.fear,grief.he gave us the power to believe,to hope,to love.for he wants us to see life the way that he made it to be...