"And there came a voice unto me, saying: Enos, thy sins are forgiven thee, and thou shalt be blessed.
And I, Enos, knew that God could not lie; wherefore, my guilt was swept away.
And I said: Lord, how is it done?
And he said unto me: Because of thy faith in Christ, whom thou hast never before heard nor seen. And many years pass away before he shall manifest himself in the flesh; wherefore, go to, thy faith hath made thee whole."
Enos 1:5-8
This is God explaining to Enos how forgiveness works... through repentance, as Enos had been struggling to do, and faith in Christ.
The phrase "thy faith hath made thee whole" is several places in the scriptures, but typically in the New Testament, where Christ says it to the woman healed of the issue of blood, to a blind man that he heals, and to the tenth leper that returned to offer thanks.
Saying it so often in that way seems like it matters. I was thinking about this today, and to me it seems like the way that God works with us in most things. The power to heal comes from God, but he never forces it on us. Instead, we can tap into that power through our faith, so it is God healing us, but it is also our faith and our choice that contribute to it, which is why God tells Enos (and the others) that their faith has made them whole.
One of the other differences here is that Enos was looking to solve a spiritual problem rather than a physical one when he went before God... and we find here that the principle is the same. I also like that "whole" doesn't just mean physically healed, but it can also mean spiritually... and honestly, the whole idea of becoming "whole" rather than broken or fragmented between our spiritual and physical selves is a lot of what earth life is about.
Today, let's have the faith to move towards wholeness, by calling on God, repenting, and knowing that God will help us to be clean, no matter our past. As God explained to Enos, this is how it is done. :)
And I, Enos, knew that God could not lie; wherefore, my guilt was swept away.
And I said: Lord, how is it done?
And he said unto me: Because of thy faith in Christ, whom thou hast never before heard nor seen. And many years pass away before he shall manifest himself in the flesh; wherefore, go to, thy faith hath made thee whole."
Enos 1:5-8
This is God explaining to Enos how forgiveness works... through repentance, as Enos had been struggling to do, and faith in Christ.
The phrase "thy faith hath made thee whole" is several places in the scriptures, but typically in the New Testament, where Christ says it to the woman healed of the issue of blood, to a blind man that he heals, and to the tenth leper that returned to offer thanks.
Saying it so often in that way seems like it matters. I was thinking about this today, and to me it seems like the way that God works with us in most things. The power to heal comes from God, but he never forces it on us. Instead, we can tap into that power through our faith, so it is God healing us, but it is also our faith and our choice that contribute to it, which is why God tells Enos (and the others) that their faith has made them whole.
One of the other differences here is that Enos was looking to solve a spiritual problem rather than a physical one when he went before God... and we find here that the principle is the same. I also like that "whole" doesn't just mean physically healed, but it can also mean spiritually... and honestly, the whole idea of becoming "whole" rather than broken or fragmented between our spiritual and physical selves is a lot of what earth life is about.
Today, let's have the faith to move towards wholeness, by calling on God, repenting, and knowing that God will help us to be clean, no matter our past. As God explained to Enos, this is how it is done. :)
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