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"And why do you worry about clothes?

See how the lilies of the field grow.

They do not labor or spin.

Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor

was dressed like one of these.

If that is how God clothes the grass of the field,

which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire,

will He not much more clothe you,

O you of little faith."

Matthew 6: 28 ~ 30

Faith according to our Lord's teaching in this paragraph,

 is primarily thinking;

and the whole trouble with a man of little faith is that 

he does not think.

He allows circumstances to bludgeon him.....

We must spend more time in studying our Lord's lessons in

 observation and deduction.

The Bible is full of logic, 

and we must never think of faith as something purely mystical.

We do not just sit down in an armchair

 and expect marvelous things to happen to us.

that is not Christian faith.  

Christian faith is essentially thinking.  

Look at the birds, think about them, draw your deductions.  

Look at the grass, 

look at the lilies of the field, 

consider them.....

Faith, if you like, 

can be defined like this:

It is a man insisting upon thinking 

when everything seems determined

 to bludgeon and knock him down

 in an intellectual sense.  

The trouble with the person of little faith is that, 

instead of controlling his own thought,

 his thought is being controlled by something else,

 and, as we put it,

 he goes round and round in circles.

That is the essence of worry....

That is not thought, 

that is the absence of thought, 

a failure to think."

Martyn Lloyd Jones

To think like a Christian takes a lot of work.

Get to know what the Bible says,

and then think everything through 

according to the truth you learn in God's word.

cac