If you have not read the last two weeks inspirational word, please read Part I and Part II. This week, we would push further on our discussion about how faith should be our nature, how God and His Son Christ have been irritated by lack of faith than any other possible sin.

Last week we discussed how we should consider faith as a key to unlock what is available in God’s Kingdom. We also saw how faith is a currency in the spiritual realm to execute transactions and how we should develop and enrich our faith to get greater results. However, one thing we should not forget that faith is more than principle and prerequisite for us to exercise our rights as believers. This week, we should talk the significance of faith just more than a principle to get things from God. Faith should have been a built-in nature of a Whole man. If we see the way God operated in creation and how He still interacts with us, though we know that He is Devine and doesn’t need human kind of faith to operate, He is full of ‘faith’.

While there was nothing, He called a universe to existence. While the reality told Gideon as a fearful and a person plagued by inferiority complex, God did see a warrior and a might man: "When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon", he said, "The LORD is with you, mighty warrior." (Judges 6: 12) In short, the very first thing we should know that we are God’s image and should copy down here on earth what He did in the spirit realm and with Devine order. God called things which did not exist (Romans 4:17), sees beyond our current circumstance. If we think of copying Him, we should live by faith and have the same outlook about ourselves as He sees us beyond our current circumstances. We might be always His sons and daughters but to get His attention and please Him, we should exercise faith (Hebrews 11: 6). We were made after His image and we would become in our class whenever we maximize our potential including operating by faith. That is, we are made of to behave this way and acting other wise is also an abuse and despise against God’s intend to make us His representative in the physical realm. We should know that He breathed in us though we are made of flesh and blood. That part He breathed in us should be allowed to operate by faith.

God and then His Son operated in faith. The world came to existence by calling things which were not there in the physical realm. His Son was calling fishes which Peter, the experienced fishermen, couldn’t find the whole night. Jesus was sending Peter to catch the first fish and bring a tax fee out of it. Jesus was sending His Word to heal and rebuke the deadly things like storms and winds. When we operate by faith, we are exercising our authority as His sons and daughters. When we suppress our true nature and operate by sight, we are denying God to reflect Himself in us and in turn operate through us to implement His timely agenda in our life and on earth.

Lack of Faith in God had been one of the main cause that irritated the Almighty; whether it was in the old or New Testament era. Whether Israelites worshiped man-made gods or looked down on themselves, these all were related to lack of faith in Him. They developed faith on things that were created by Him than trusting Him for everything, which requires faith, not sight. They considered themselves as grasshoppers and magnified their enemies as giants regardless of His promises to give them the land, which was a clear lack of faith on Him and His promises. The ten spies said, "There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight." (Numbers 13: 33)

If you notice, the trouble was sight.....in our own sight......in their sight. That means these guys were not proven wrong if sight was the measurement. They were right, as far as sight was concerned, but the measure should have been faith, which the other two used to value themselves against all odds. We saw God’s frustration when He said, "How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the miraculous signs I have performed among them?" (Numbers 14: 11) We know the story, how God was almost to strike them down and make a new nation (Numbers 14: 12); a nation that believes in Him and His promises; a nation that doesn’t depend on sight! Even if He was calmed down after Moses begged Him, we know the destiny of not only the ones who saw but those who believed the testimony of sight: "Not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their forefathers." (Numbers 14: 23)

The most irritating thing for Christ was not how much some one immersed in sin or ignorant of the law or religious practices. Whether that was adultery or over taxing innocents or allowing demons to roost in one’s sacred heart, none of them irritated as lack or little faith in His Father or on Him. The former people got the compassion of Christ and He met their needs and forgave their sins. It was not only the lack but the little faith issue that left Him being irritated all the time. While Peter as the first man to try to walk on the water should have been praised and awarded, the little faith he had irritated Christ: "You of little faith, why did you doubt?" (Matthew 14: 31). Yes, the water was dancing in joy to get such a chance to be a red carpet to Christ- the Creator and majestic Prince walking on it- here is the co-worker and buddy of Christ shaking and fearing the dance of the water as a roar to eat him. The Bible says in Habakkuk 3: 10, "the mountains saw you and writhed. Torrents of water swept by; the deep roared and lifted its wave on high." The water cannot help it but to roar and lift its wave high though those frighten Peter and trusted his sight than believing in Christ who called him.