real and evident...

i know it’s not something that is easy for some to do but the rewards are so far reaching.  take GODly risks knowing that you may fail but that GOD will never fail you.  that’s an open door faith.

open door faith is the ability to display faith.  and i mean display faith.  look at what joseph does

genesis 41.15 (msg), “i dreamed a dream,” pharaoh told joseph. “nobody can interpret it. but i’ve heard that just by hearing a dream you can interpret it.” joseph answered, “not i, but GOD. GOD will set pharaoh’s mind at ease.”

here joseph is on the edge of his dream.  what an opportunity to promote himself!  he better leave SPIRITuality out of this thing.  pharaoh may not like the god of egypt.  why bring religion into this?  you don’t want to mess the deal up by bringing religion in. 

but here’s joseph, right on the edge of his dream and he says, “i can’t interpret the dream.  it’s the GOD of my fathers.  HE’s the one who can do it.”  that’s part of an open door faith, the ability to display faith.  not just have faith but to display it.   a billboard kind of faith is what i’m talking about.  the kind of faith people can see.  not phony, not flashy – i don’t mean that by billboard.  but real and evident.  and GOD is able to work in our lives when you and i don’t hide our faith.  that was a part of joseph going through this open door.

just a thought from the front porch…