Scripture of the Day: Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Having a two-year old means that a lot of my time is spent teaching...we go over what every object is (I love to hear him say, "What is that new thing?", we talk about colors, we go over manners, numbers, letters, etc. Most of these things my husband and I go over and over with our son. Eventually he gets most things, but there is always something we need to "re-teach." I'm almost thirty and I feel like God is doing the same thing with me because like my son, I forget things!
This weekend I had two separate "light bulb" moments where I felt like God was telling me that the answer to the the "why?" in life was faith. I was very excited about this discovery. And then I went back and re-read my own blog post from May and realized I had this discovery a few months ago and wrote about it to an extent then too! Oops! I am so glad that our Heavenly Father is patient with us and does not mind teaching us the same lesson over and over again!
There are periods in our lives where we have nothing to go on but faith. There are trying times for all of us. No matter how long or short of a length of time we spend in those trials - it is our faith that sustains us. When we are blessed with faith from God, the trials sometimes (note that word - sometimes), seem somewhat easier because we know that "why" we are going through ______ (fill in the blank,) is because God intended it to. When we believe that, we can hope through our trials because we believe in what we cannot see - which is largely the Word of God and the promises it contains.
Does it make sense to say that when you are struggling with illness or financial issues or family struggles, you are living on faith? You may never get an answer to "why" any of those things are happening in your life. As the Scripture above tells us, you hope in faith, and you cannot see it. God doesn't guarantee us answers or easy solutions - so we hope, we live in faith, and we trust that He has it figured it out and we pray for the grace to go through whatever trials we may face in a way that brings Him glory -- and that helps us go on.
Closing Prayer:
Heavenly Father - thank you for being patient enough and persistent enough to teach me the same lessons over and over. I do wish I could "get" things the first time, but it doesn't happen that way. Please always keep working on me! Please also help me have enough faith to sustain me in times of trouble - whether those times last a few hours, a few days, or the rest of my life. Help me not get stuck in the "why," but instead, help me stay in the faith! I pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen.
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Having a two-year old means that a lot of my time is spent teaching...we go over what every object is (I love to hear him say, "What is that new thing?", we talk about colors, we go over manners, numbers, letters, etc. Most of these things my husband and I go over and over with our son. Eventually he gets most things, but there is always something we need to "re-teach." I'm almost thirty and I feel like God is doing the same thing with me because like my son, I forget things!
This weekend I had two separate "light bulb" moments where I felt like God was telling me that the answer to the the "why?" in life was faith. I was very excited about this discovery. And then I went back and re-read my own blog post from May and realized I had this discovery a few months ago and wrote about it to an extent then too! Oops! I am so glad that our Heavenly Father is patient with us and does not mind teaching us the same lesson over and over again!
There are periods in our lives where we have nothing to go on but faith. There are trying times for all of us. No matter how long or short of a length of time we spend in those trials - it is our faith that sustains us. When we are blessed with faith from God, the trials sometimes (note that word - sometimes), seem somewhat easier because we know that "why" we are going through ______ (fill in the blank,) is because God intended it to. When we believe that, we can hope through our trials because we believe in what we cannot see - which is largely the Word of God and the promises it contains.
Does it make sense to say that when you are struggling with illness or financial issues or family struggles, you are living on faith? You may never get an answer to "why" any of those things are happening in your life. As the Scripture above tells us, you hope in faith, and you cannot see it. God doesn't guarantee us answers or easy solutions - so we hope, we live in faith, and we trust that He has it figured it out and we pray for the grace to go through whatever trials we may face in a way that brings Him glory -- and that helps us go on.
Closing Prayer:
Heavenly Father - thank you for being patient enough and persistent enough to teach me the same lessons over and over. I do wish I could "get" things the first time, but it doesn't happen that way. Please always keep working on me! Please also help me have enough faith to sustain me in times of trouble - whether those times last a few hours, a few days, or the rest of my life. Help me not get stuck in the "why," but instead, help me stay in the faith! I pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen.
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