Faith ~ Walking not Standing with God!

This last May I moved to a new place and the unpacking took longer than it should have. Well, it was partially my fault, the other half of the blame goes to my shoe rack. “Excuses excuses!” as my housemate would say it. I promise I have a point coming just hold on.

I have this frame of a cross that has faith written below it. The first time I put it up by putting tacks on the back of it since my wall didn’t have any holes and I had no intention of creating any. It lasted about an hour and it fell flat on its face. Then I thought let me get something strong to hold it. I don’t know how I didn’t think of this all along but now I had the solution! I was going to use a pin J I felt so pleased with my idea even before I checked if it would actually work. So I put it up again using the pin. Well, at least this time it lasted longer before it fell flat on its shiny surface L but, did I give up noooooo!! So again I tried it with two pins and this time it actually worked. But there was another thing going wrong, the more I tried to make stable the more it got loose. So I just stopped hammering the pin since it gave it an unpleasant bend.

Faith (walk of a Christian with God) is not something that can be achieved overnight nor will it be easy. When pursuing God you will face challenges, you will just need to learn the art of forgetting that these two words exist, ‘giving up’. As you can read from my endless effort of trying to hang my frame, even when  you are looking to do the right thing it might not work, things might not happen the way you plan them to. The fact that the frame fell each time I tried to put it up on my wall is not because it didn’t belong on my wall it was because despite the fact that I had all the right and good intentions I wasn’t approaching it the right way. Have you noticed the more I tried the better I got at challenging my problem? God puts it in 1Peter 1:7 as “These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire —may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”

Going through trails will only increase your faith and prove how genuine you are about your walk with your Lord! And God has promised that no matter how bad the trials seem they will never be beyond what we can handle, 1 Corinthians 10: 13 “No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.”

And another thing God wouldn’t want us to be while in trail is anxious! Yes anxiety is a natural response for most of us (for me crying then anxiety come very naturally). God is so faithful and trust worthy but knowing His creations more than we know ourselves He prepared His word as a reminder. In Philippians 4:6-7 He says “6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

Notes:

·         Trials are for our own good, they are there to work out our faith (like exercising your muscles to get them stronger)

·         God says we can never be tempted more than what we can handle, so whatever you are going through God knows you are stronger than it!

·         During such times it is important to keep calm and regain our peace through His word and being prayerful is also key J

Stay Blessed <3