One of the tutors in Bangalore asked me a question raised by her group. Abraham in his life very often exhibited lack of faith – in hiding the fact that Sarah was his wife (Gen Ch 20); in asking for Ishmael to be taken as the chosen one rather than the yet unborn Isaac (Gen Ch 17). Why did not these evidences of lack of faith affect his relationship with God?
We would like to see faith as a steady line, like a DC current. But it is never like that. Faith is a wavy line, a sinusoidal curve that keeps going up and down like an AC current. God knows that and accepts it. It is only when the line is broken and the current stops flowing that our relationship with God is affected. Hence Jesus said that small faith is adequate to move mountains.
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