Hall of Faith

 I was reading a particularly thought provoking book and in the afterward the author mentioned the "Faith Hall of Fame" - Hebrews Chapter 11.

I am a bit embarrassed to say that I had to stop and look it up- but sure enough that's exactly what it is.

Abel.  Enoch.  Noah.  Abraham. Sara. Isaac. Jacob. Joseph. Rahab. Moses. Batak. Gedeon. And so many more.  

All imperfect mortals who acted on faith. 

In the book, Charles Martin adds his own faith heroes to the list.  

One is a Nicaraguan man named Moises whose family miraculously survived the mudslides of 1996 as result of Hurricane Mitch.  

This man has nothing but gives everything.  He makes only $2/day but  uses what he does have to help others.  He shows deep gratitude.  

He is honest to a fault.  He was entrusted with $200,000 in donations to help in the reconstruction and recovery of his community.

18 months later he turned in receipts for every cent of the money except for six bags of concrete he couldn't account for.  He offered to pay for those himself.  

When the author met with him and asked him why he lives the way he does (and told the stories more eloquently than I am), multiple times he pointed to his Bible and said because He told us to.

That my friends is faith.  

It's studying and learning not to see what else we can excuse or get away with.  It's not to see what we can get out of it.  

It's simply asking what God is asking us to do and doing it.  Regardless of the outcome.  

I have some work to do.