Faith Cannot Work With Fear

What happens when a believer approaches the subject of faith when he is in a state of fear, is that he tries to make faith work without first developing a sense of trust towards God. In this sense, we de-personalise faith. God is our Hevealy Father, and as such, we shoud trust Him as a child trusts his earthly father.

When we take the trust element out of faith, we end-up having a relationship with God like we would with our boss at work or with our bank manager. The sad thing about the approach of some believers towards prosperity teaching is that their sense of insecurity and lack of trust towards God turns faith into some kind of cosmic ordering system.

Our relationship with God is personal; we can respond towards God just in all the same ways in which we respond to other people. We can respond to God with love, joy, fear, anger, hurt and so on.

Anger arises when we feel powerless in a situation and when we feel that someone else is either in control of us or they are trying to control us. Our anger towards God arises when we feel a sense of powerlessness in a situation and we are unable to move the hand of God in order to make things happen the way we want. Trust in God eliminates anger towards Him.

It is quite possible to have distrust towards God and yet be hardly consciously aware of it. In such cases, we can tell if we harbour distrust towards God, when we find ourselves provoked to anger towards Him.

All the aspects of love are about maintaining peace: our own peace, the peace of others and the peace of God. When we choose to trust in God – we make a decision to accept peace in our lives, as we rid ourselves of anger towards Him.