The need to be Balanced: Principles of Faith

In the last write-up, the need to have balanced knowledge (spiritual and skill) was emphasized. In reality, however the man with only spiritual knowledge becomes frustrated at the success of the skillfully man and decides to emulate him (i.e. he drops the Bible and concentrates on skill only).

This situation is not right. The two (skill and spirituality) must go together. In Mark 4 v35 - 41, when Jesus and the disciples were crossing to the other side in a boat. The disciples rowed in a boat using their skill (some were fishermen), but when the storm came they needed more than their skill to reach the other side. They called to Jesus, he rebuked the wind and asked about their FAITH.

Faith in God is very important in order to maintain the balance. Some of the reasons to have faith in addition to skill is
1. Faith takes you further than your skill
2. Faith takes you faster than your skill 1 Kings 18 v46
3. Faith makes you have better results
4. Faith protects your results

God does not need anything. Acts 17 v25
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