Here was Israel, God s chosen people and God had worked all these wonders so that they could be released from slavery in Egypt. In spite of all they had seen , the Israelites didn t see that the reason they had been brought out of Egypt was to serve the Lord. Time after time, the people Moses was leading turned away from God and worshiped other gods and false idols. Moses on the other hand, who is named in Hebrews chapter 11 as one of our great examples of faith, did get it. Faith changes the way we experience things, it changes how we see and hear perceive things and sometimes, it even changes what we can see or hear of percieve.
Faith also makes the unbelievable, believable.
I know that many of you have heard at least part of the story of Kevin s Dad and his fight with cancer. I hope that those of you who have heard it before will bear with me while I tell it again because it is a perfect illustration of how faith makes the unbelievable, believable. The story begins when Kevin and I had been married for about a year. We were living in Peoria, Illinois and had just found out that Angie would be joining us. It was one of Kevin s brothers calling from Indiana to tell us that Kevin s Dad had been diagnosed with bone cancer and would probably only live for another year or so.