The Life-Thread of Faith
Via Iwand’s sermon “The Loincloth”
James Tissot, "The Prophet Jeremiah" (1888)
For when this thread, the life-thread of faith, breaks, when the nail on which everything hangs is loosened, then it is the same with everything else as well. Being able to listen, listen and not act without his bidding, wanting to listen and therefore asking God, being able to hear and therefore praying to God – now that bears the weight of an eternal decision. As long as we listen, listen to Him and want to listen to Him, as long as He speaks to us in Jesus Christ, His living word, we are girded about Him as the loincloth around the hips of a man. No one will tear us from Him. Nothing can get in between when obedience binds us to God. Even Satan will try his skills in vain. And if we do not listen? If we slip away out of listening into doing or into wanting to know or into feelings or wherever temptation and recklessness lead? What is the significance of this “if” and “but” that we are invited to look here. Here we are at the end of our words.
