Faith often means taking action before seeing the results.

Trusting in God is not for the faint of heart.

Many times faith requires you to do things that make no sense—or even go against common logic—with only your faith in God to hold on to.

In the story of the ten lepers being healed in Luke 17, Jesus tells the lepers to go show themselves to the priests. They start making their way there, except they start walking before they are healed.

This is crazy, because every law forbade them from going to the priest in their state and it would have meant worse repercussions than just being declared unclean.

Notice it here in the verse: And it happened that as they were going, they were cleansed.

As they were going. They were healed on the way there!

When God tells us to do something, faith requires that we walk in that direction before the results of what He promises show up.

Faith is trusting in God—trusting that He will do what He said He will do, even if in the natural it doesn’t look like He will.

Bold faith in God, post-Enlightenment—where we must logically plan every move—can sometimes take a back seat. If it does, we are missing out on one of the most incredible ways to live out our walk with Jesus.