And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Matthew 17:20 KJV
As has been talked about elsewhere, unbelief is the greater belief in the seen, rather than the unseen. This is often described as more than simple a lack of faith, is a force that works against true faith as it is a “faith” in the visible, rather than in the invisible.
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I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor. This too is vanity and striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death (Proverbs 14:12, Proverbs 16:25). There is that which looks like labor and achievement, but, as a despondent King Solomon observed, it all the result of rivalry, envy, between a man and his neighbor. It is vanity, meaningless, and a striving after the wind.
Consider the words of the apostle John. He said that everyone who truly loves is born of God (1 John 4:7). If love is the restoration God is looking to bring to the human heart (Matthew 22:40), then love is principally the one thing which fallen man cannot do (1 Peter 1:22, Galatians 5:6). There is no true benevolence, as King Solomon pointed out, there is no real industry. What appears to be love at the outset is really a misidentified attempting to gratify the flesh.
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