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Where does great faith come from? How do I achieve a level of faith and trust in my God like Noah and Daniel had? How do I attain extreme trust-the same trust that allowed Daniel to jump into a den of lions without fear or the same faith that caused Noah to work on a ship for 100 years because God told him it was going to rain (Noah didn’t even know what rain WAS)? This past month in the Ukraine God called me to great faith and trust in Him.

One day last week I was worshipping the Lord when I felt the urge to go up to the mountain to continue worshipping. (We were at a camp surrounded by open land…hills you could climb and be alone with God). As I was there in the presence of the Lord, I began to pray for healing over my eyes. As I’m praying, I hear the Lord say, “If you want ME to heal your eyes, chuck your glasses over the hill.” At first, I thought the idea was insane, so I kept praying. As I continued to pray I kept hearing “Chuck ‘em…how much do you trust me?” After a while it dawned on me that God wasn’t just asking me to throw away my glasses and the issue wasn’t about my eyes at all-but about trust. I realized I had been living in a life of doubt…always doubting the things the Lord was saying to me, and I was tired of it. I firmly decided I was tired of doubting God. Again I heard, “How much do you trust me? Do you want to trust me like Noah did? You have two choices. A) You can trust me and throw your glasses away and believe that I WILL heal your eyes or B) you can continue to walk viewing life through clouded lenses. Which do you choose?” So what did I do? Yep. I threw my glasses over the hill. As I watched my glasses fade into the green landscape a wave of peace came over me. I looked around and realized I was no longer viewing life behind clouded lenses. The grass was greener. The sky was bluer. I was finally seeing as God intended. As I walked down the hill I stopped and realized I was free. No longer do I have to live under the chains of doubt. I’m free to radically trust my God. I’m free to have the faith and trust Daniel and Noah did.

My eyesight is not 20/20 yet. I can guarantee to you that it is definitely BETTER than it was, but I’m not completely healed yet, and I’m ok with that. Over the next 2 days two different teammates approached me and gave me Mark 8.

“They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man’s eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, ‘Do you see anything?’ He looked up and said, ‘I see people; they look like trees walking around.’ Once more Jesus put his hands on the man’s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.”

Just prior to this story we read another account of Jesus healing a blind man, but he was healed instantly. Jesus chooses to heal in different ways. Sometimes the results are instant, but sometimes it requires more of us-things like faith, trust, and belief. God has chosen to heal ME like he did with the man at Bethsaida. It may require not one healing touch, but two. I am confident of this: God will heal me. This was just one leap of faith, but it marks for me a lifetime of leaps-a life of walking in faith and trust in my God like Noah and Daniel once did.