"It's impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him."
Do I really have faith? Do I really believe that God cares enough to respond to me as I seek him? When I say this it means that I must take whatever circumstance that comes my way and know that the is God working at God's pleasure. Even if it is something horrific, God sees the bigger picture and is working something out that I could never understand. I think that most times we believe that God only cares for us if things in life happen in the way that we think that they should. If we do not get blessed in exactly the way we think we ought to, or something does not come into our life when it should, then God must not be loving us and responding. This is not faith.
Faith is knowing that things are as they should be, even when we do not understand. Faith is accepting that we do not have to understand. Faith is knowing that God is working things to perfection no matter what is happening. We cannot dictate this and when we try we only find disappointment, anger, depression, and pain. When we accept that God is truly in control, even through the worst of circumstances, we find that “peace that passes all understanding.” We do not necessary find happiness or good feelings; we find the condition of peace. This is an art that must be drawn and redrawn moment by moment. It is the giving away of our lives to the Creator who does all things with perfection and living in complete abandon to that knowing. It is being like a child who believes that all things are possible.
Faith is a state of being at peace. Faith is not really a state of being happy or understanding everything or never feeling pain. Faith is a state of being at peace. Faith is not believing until you get what you want in the way that you want it. Faith is a state of being at peace no matter what comes your way because you understand that God really does have your back, the Creator will respond!
Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good. Romans 8:28
See each moment today not as coincidence, but rather as things that coincide. We tend to view things as random chance or coincidences. However, that word is actually used in geometry to describe two lines that coincide or "fit together perfectly" to form an angle. Remember that things do not just happen to you, but are perfectly fit together by a loving Creator. Rather than being upset that it has not fit together just as you would like it to, practice faith and allow God to fit it together perfectly.
Namaste'
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