FAITH

This last month in Children’s ministry, the Bible story has been the friends that brought the lame man to Jesus. I love the simplicity of hearing a bible story aimed at under fives. I always have. And although this story was focusing on the way friends treat each other; I was blown away at their tenacious faith. (and yes, God can speak to you through a kiddies version)
It’s like they refused to take their friend back home lame. Like they had drawn that line and said this far and no further. Too many people here? No logical way to get to Jesus? This far and no further! They lowered their friend down through the roof! Do you know how heavy an adult is to lug around?! They thought out of the box, but they were desperate enough to say “today is the day and we accept nothing else”. What if one friend had been the negative kind like the 10/12 spies; had said “its must not be our day”? …and they had gone home and carried their friend around for the rest of his life?
Their act of unrelenting faith made it into the Bible ?
I like nameless stories. It sounds pretentious when I say I want to be like Gideon, Joshua, Miriam…..but when there’s a nameless story in the Bible its easier to take it and put yourself in there.
Can I have unwavering faith? Believing that Jesus can heal to the point that I will push the envelope for a miracle I know is mine? Will I brave the uncomfortable work of lugging an adult to the top of a roof, the unconventional work of vandalizing a house, the ingenious work of coming up with a plan to tie ropes to a blanket, the work of coming up with a well devised plan to lower someone right to where Jesus was preaching, and the work of community that saw friends working together with the same strong faith?
Faith has history, faith takes work, faith uses my unique brand of creativity, and faith speaks of a future ?