Unbelief

In Miners' Memorial Park, located in McConnelsville, Ohio, is the massive bucket of the "Big Muskie." This bucket is all that remains of what was known as the "World's Largest Earth-Moving Machine." Built in 1969, this coal-mining excavator could move 39 million pounds of dirt and rock hourly. The electricity required to operate was equal to the power needed for 27,500 homes!

Usually when we hear of something that is powerful (like the "Big Muskie"), we think of something large and noticeable. However, there is power in very small things, and this is less obvious.   Consider some Bible examples of the great power of unbelief:
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• Pharaoh's army could not stop Israel from going to the Promised Land, but unbelief did (Hebrews 3:16-19).
• Unbelief turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt (Genesis 19:17, 26).
• Unbelief caused Zacharias to lose his voice for nine months (Luke 1:18-20).
• Although Jesus had healed the sick, raised the dead, and even created eyes out of mud, yet, because of unbelief, He could not do miracles in His own hometown (Matthew 13:57-58). 

The opposite of unbelief is faith. Which one is stronger? It all depends on which one we are feeding. If we let our thoughts dwell on our doubts and fail to talk to God and read what He has to say in the Bible, sadly, we might begin to see how powerful unbelief can become.

Since no man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is open to all. There is nothing else to hinder us from entering, but our own unbelief.    —John Calvin