I know we've all heard that saying so many times. "You just have to have faith", "step out in faith", "keep the faith", "take a leap of faith". For me, so many of this cliche phrases lose their meaning from overuse. Sure, it's easy to know that I should have faith. It is far more involved to actually HAVE faith.
How do I know that I have faith? Or enough faith? Even the apostles struggled with this question. In Luke 17:5 they cried out "Increase our faith!" How do I have faith? I get to know Christ. I spend time in the Word, with the Word. I read and listen and ponder in my heart and trust and acknowledge the quiet presence of the Lord in my life.
Easier said than done. I know.
Trust me. I know.
We are in a season right now where we as a family need tremendous faith. Just in the past three weeks our lives seem to have taken a sharp left turn from the direction that we thought we were going. We've gone from DH working full time, and me working my DS business and being a SAHM full-time and added in: blogging, our Etsy shop (check us out Lone Star By Lee), a custom woodworking business, and DH having to walk away from his current position. We have prayed, cried, agonized over these decisions for the last several days, and although we are scared to death - we are stepping out in faith. We are claiming the promise of Christ in Matthew 21:21-22 “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
This evening as I am writing this, I feel a bit like Noah. How crazy did he sound to his family and friends? I mean think about it, the man was building a MASSIVE boat becuase God told him that there was going to be water falling from the sky. So much water that it would cover the earth and kill every living thing not on that boat. Guys, it had NEVER. RAINED. BEFORE. The plants were watered by a mist that rose up from the ground. But water falling from the sky was unheard of. Tht would be like me telling you that tomorrow I can go out and eat the clouds for breakfast. That makes zero sense. And yet, there was Noah, for YEARS being faithful and and following God's directions. And now here I am. Moving forward with a plan that doesn't make much sense to myself or to those around, trusting completely that God has a plan for me (Jeremiah 29:11), and that God has set these events in motion as part of His plan. I just have to keep moving forward on the path He has already laid out.
So tonight, I will rest in the comfort and peace of Matthew 6:26 which says "Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"
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