In my personal view faith
stands on something we believe in. Somehow this is what pushes us to do better,
to do well and to be a better person. I have faith in God as my Lord and Savior
as my redeemer and my only way towards salvation.
Despite circumstances, Faith
is the only thing that keeps me going. My recent story will just be the same
old story of everyone else. My life story is so ordinary that everyone may be
experiencing and or has experienced in one way or the other.
Just recently, I lost
everything that I have been working for the past decades or so. I planned
everything according to my will and everything was running smoothly. Until one
day, someone came in and started breaking every foundation that I have built.
Masked with friendly gestures then turned into a personified monster from the
underworld. I was caught off guard. Then every foundation started to break so
easily. These people came like a strongest magnitude of an earthquake. Then
left me with almost nothing.
The career that I had been
holding on has gone astray and I became a dog without a master. Then I
realized, after all these long journey that I had been doing there was one
thing I forgot. The FAITH to my creator was set aside. It was this missing link
I suppose that when a quake has come the foundation I built gets shattered that
easy.
That was my missing link. That
was the most important part that I had missed. The self-centeredness has
consumed me. Anger has changed my attitude. I used to be so positive and
vibrant and because of that anger from within me it has changed me to become
meaner each day. God has a way of making us realize the things we miss.
One Sunday when I went to
church, the pastor started talking about Faith not just a Faith but an
audacious faith. He was talking about the story of Zelophehad’s daughter. It
made me realize that their story is amazing displaying the faith they had for
God.
Here’s their story as I
narrate it with my personal experience and thoughts.
Long time ago in the Old
Testament, where the culture is strongly patriarchal Zelophehad died along the
way on their journey to the promise land. Zelophehad died without no son. So
all his belongings including a land will be given not to his daughters but to
his brothers living his daughter without any means of livelihood.
Zelophehad’s daughter, Mahlah,
Noah, Milcah and Tirzah knew they had inheritance they knew they have a good
God. These ladies, hold on to GOD’s promise. They also knew they don’t have a
voice because in Hebrew in the olden times, inheritance are to be given to the
sons from their deceased father. They knew that if they will make a stand they
would have to stand before Moses, Eleazar the priest and chiefs of the congregation.
Because Zelophehad’s daughter
had an audacious faith towards GOD, they would make a stand and appeal in their
hearts to give them the inheritance they should receive from their deceased
father Zelophehad.
I then realized, I didn’t had
faith from GOD that he can do all things. I knew God can move mountains but
merely knowing is definitely useless if you don’t have the faith that GOD
indeed can move mountains for us. Knowledge is just a tool for us to survive,
for us to use it to become a better servant to our creator. It shouldn’t be the
definition of what we can do but rather it is a definition that GOD gave us
knowledge to function better according to his will. All we need to do is have
faith. It is that FAITH that we have in our heart that will guide us through
the decisions we make or the words we utter.
With Zelophehad’s daughter and
their argument, Moses asks God to make the decision.
In real life, let’s be like
Moses. When faced in a challenging situation we should sit back for a while and
ask God’s guidance. We can never go wrong if it is the will of the Lord.
Remember, the decision you make may somehow impact someone else’s life. Should
Moses acted upon the Law of the Land then no matter what the Zelophehad sister
would do will definitely
The story of the Zelophehad
daughters and their faith is found in the bible in the book of Numbers Chapter
27 verses 1 to 7.
Each day as we pursue our
daily task we are given decisions to make. It is always best to have that Faith
burning just like the daughters of Zelophehad who always had their faith in
them and in those desperate situation God stood with them. Their story is a
biblical testament that with intense faith that we have for as long as we fuel
it and keep it burning each day, then God will always be there too with us
battling 90% of our battle.
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