FAITH PROVEN BY NEARNESS

 FAITH PROVEN BY NEARNESS

Faith does not stand far off

counting truths from a distance.

It moves—

crossing the space between knowing

and doing.

It hears a cry

and does not translate it into theory.

It sees a wound

and does not file it away as understanding.

Faith draws near.

Not because it is strong,

but because it cannot remain still

when love calls it forward.

It steps into interruption,

into inconvenience,

into the unscripted moment

where another life presses close.

There—

where presence costs something—

faith begins to speak.

Not in words alone,

but in touch,

in time given,

in the refusal to pass by.

For what is believed at a distance

remains unproven

until it enters the reach of another.

In the way of Jesus Christ,

faith is never separate from nearness.

What He saw, He approached.

What He heard, He answered.

What He loved, He carried.

And so the question returns

to every passing moment:

Will you remain where belief is safe,

or will you go where it must be lived?

For faith finds its truth

not in what it claims—

but in how close it is willing to come.

Faith is proven

by nearness. 

Pastor Steven G. Lee 

St. GMC Corps

April 26, 2026