Faith

I wrote this back in December and I thought I would share it :)

Hello! I read "My Utmost for His Highest" a devotional by Oswald Chambers every morning and there have been a couple days that have really stood out to me in the past couple weeks. I thought I would share.

They have to do with faith.

As for me I am really saddened when I hear people losing their faith in God. I am not saying I have perfect faith all the time or anything. Right now I am struggling with some things and I of course get frustrated, but I know that God is there. He really truly has shown me that He loves me and He is guiding me through some things I am working on in myself. He teaches me things everyday by reading His word and prayer.

There are some things right now that I don't understand or situations I am in that I get upset about, but I do know that I am growing in these situations and that all God wants is for us to come to Him in these situations that cause us sadness or anger (as well as in happy times of course).

I don't know everything or understand everything but I do know that God doesn't want to bring us harm. He wants to give us abundant life and we have to learn to Trust instead of pushing Him away. And trusting God isn't always easy-believe me. It's a day to day process-a daily surrender. But by this surrender even in the darkest of times God will bring you joy. I know that first hand!

"my utmost..."
It is the will of God that human beings should get into a right standing relationship with Him and His covenants are designed for this purpose. Why doesn't God save me? He has accomplished and provided for my salvation but I have not entered into a relationship with Him. Why doesn't God do everything we ask? He has done it. The point is-will I step into that covenant relationship with Him. All the great blessings of God are finished and complete, but they are not mine until I enter into a relationship with Him on the basis of His covenant.

Waiting for God to act is fleshly unbelief. It means that I have no faith in Him. I wait for Him to do something in me so I may trust in that. But God won't do it because that is not the basis of the God-and-man-relationship. Man must go beyond the physical body and feelings in his covenant with God just as God goes beyone Himself in reaching out with His covenant to man. It is a question of faith in God-a very rare thing. We only have faith in our feelings. Ex. "I don't believe God until He puts something tangible in my hand so that I know I have it." Then I say, "Now I believe" There is not faith in that. God says, " Look to Me, and be saved......" Isaiah 45:22

When I have really transacted business with God on the basis of His covenant, letting everything else go, there is no sense of personal acievement-no human ingredient in it at all. Instead there is a complete overwhelming sense of being brought into union with God and my life is transformed and radiates peace and joy.

"my utmost......"
Being faithful to God is the most hardest thing we try to do today. We will be faithful to our work, to serving others, or to anything else, but when it comes down to being faithful to God it is the most hardest thing-don't ask me to do that. We treat God as if He were a machine designed only to bless us. The goal of faithfullness is not that we will do the work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us.

Katie: I am not here to judge other people-I have no right to do that-I have plenty of plank in my eye-I am just here to share and perhaps bless you with these words.