Maybe you're a doer. You start things, finish things, DO things. You think of it and that's all you need to know you should do it. That's what faith is to you -- doing.
But you have trouble waiting -- faith to wait is a real challenge.
Or you're like me -- you want God to be proven and you have plenty of faith to wait until he does. It kills you to think you might jump the gun and do something that's not God's idea.
But you have trouble doing, getting going -- it seems like you're always waiting on God.
The Doer looks at the Waiter and sees lack of faith -- isn't faith proven by action? Isn't that what James said?
The Waiter looks at the Doer and sees human accomplishment and asks, so how do we know that was God's idea and that he did it? Abaham and Sarah didn't wait on God and look what happened!
Maybe this difference is normal, even on-purpose, with a warning to protect the purpose:
Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. -- Romans 12.3-5
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