For we live by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7
I really wanted to write something today, but I’ve been going through some sort of confidence issue. Have you ever been sailing along when you start to question if you can do something that you’ve already been doing? Is the devil attacking, trying to steal God’s glory? Is someone’s voice drowning out God’s? Could it be recognizing that we really don’t have what it takes to produce something meaningful all on our own?
I found out that it could be any of those things plus so many more, but we just need to battle it with one thing. The solution to all our issues…faith. Ideas, dreams, or jobs may seem impossible in our eyes, but I’ve found that when I have some faith (even a teeny, tiny bit) in believing what I think God has told me and I take a step in that faith, He makes the rest happen.
When we talk about doing something that seems impossible to human eyes, let’s take a little look at me. My children accuse me of having a magnetic field around me that messes up all electronics within a certain radius. Seriously, I gave up trying to watch television because the buttons on the remote do not work for me! Yet, I have a blog.
My best friend used to joke that she couldn’t sit too close to me or my spelling might rub off on her. I’m writing and people are able to read it? Just don’t look too closely!
My mind gets so fuzzy from being bit by a crazy tick that when I’m writing, it doesn’t even make sense to me. It doesn’t seem possible that I would write and put it out into the digital world. I do. I’m even told there are people who’ll read it. Guess what…it makes sense to them. Makes me wonder about you people.
Let me tell you what it looks like when we decide to step out in faith to do something within God’s will. I made up my mind that I was going to sit down at the computer even if nothing came out. I might not have any idea (like most times I should add) what I could write about, but I’d let God figure that one out. I was determined to take the pup out for a walk, pray about it, and sit down at the computer.
The leash was in my hand, the pup at my side, and we were ready to go. It’s tradition to stop at his potty area for him to do his business before we start out. His area is in the woods. It’s a nice shady spot with lots of trees. I’ll admit to being on guard for a snake curled up or a bear lingering around, but never have I been worried about a bird.
As we stepped under those trees, a bird took off while attacking me with some business of his own. I found myself in disbelief at the perfect precision the white slime had when it smacked me right in the middle of my forehead and continued to run down my nose. After the pup was finished, we headed back in for a quick wipe off before taking our journey down the road.
I was back on track and ready to listen to God in case he wanted to clue me in on what I was going to write about when it dawned on me that He had just given me what I needed. Do these types of things happen just so I have something to write about? Well, all I had to do was get into agreement with what He wanted me to do and have a little faith that He’d take care of the rest when He gave me what to write about.
I was trying to figure out how I was supposed to go with this story. Did I talk about how we need to be alert and never complacent about what’s going on around us? I had a bit of a revelation that all my issues have occurred from the small, harmless things and never from the “dangerous” ones in my life. So, I really could talk about how we have our guard down around things that don’t seem like a big deal, yet those are the ones we end up getting hit by.
What I think I need to say is simple though. Stop worrying about how things look and start living by faith. Remember that mustard seed. All it takes is a simple step showing you’re believing and trusting God to do what you could never do on your own.
When something happens and you want to complain about it, recognize the situation might’ve been from GOD for you, instead of against you. Even if it was done by the devil, remember that it can be taken and used as a stepping stone by God for you to get to the next level.
I’ll even throw in an extra word of wisdom…when you look up, keep your mouth closed. That could’ve been really bad.
