Faith.

Faith.

I have heard it described as the assurance of things of unseen.   I have been contemplating faith lately.  Faith like a mustard seed.  Why a mustard seed and not something else.  Faith like a pinecone, I mean those are cool.  God is always so intentional on what he says that I knew there was a reason why, probably more like a hundred reasons why.  Small is the first thing that comes to mind.  Like an afterthought.  A mustard seed isn’t something that would stop you in your tracks as you were walking out the door.  But yet if you aren’t looking for it you might never see it.  That is a pretty small amount of faith that God tells us we need just to move mountains.  MOVE MOUNTAINS.  I mean you don’t get much bigger than mountains.  So somewhere between the small minute amount of faith needed and the actual act of moving a mountain there has to be something that happens.  In the inbetween God proves FAITHFUL time and time again.  God speaks to us 365 times in the bible to Trust Him.  That is one time for every single day of the year.  But yet we choose to trust in the things that have never made a promise to us or don’t have the capacity to make true on the promises that they do make.  We trust that our jobs will be there tomorrow when we show up for work.  We trust that our cars will start in the morning without giving it a second thought.  We trust that the road that we always drive down to get to work will still be there to again provide a way for us to there.   We trust that when we sit down in a chair it will hold the weight.  We trust that when we turn the oven on it will get hot.  All of this seems silly but yet when was the last time ANY of these things made a promise to you?  Before you sat down did you wonder and fret over whether the chair was going to hold you?  Did you examine how the chair was built, running your fingers over all the weld spots searching for possible weaknesses?  No.  Why not?  Because time and time again when you go to start your car it starts, and never have you seen a road just disappear, and very very rarely does a chair fall apart when you sit in it.  They have all stood the test of time.  But yet still there was never a spoken promise in any of that.  BUT YET….God spoke 365 times to trust Him.  To have faith like a mustard seed.  His word promises that ALL THINGS work together for the good of those that trust in Him.  That means you don’t have to look for weak spots in His plan.  He is working on things that we have no idea about.  So while you are busy finding fault in His plan (according to your plan, haaaa which never works out anyways).  He promised. Period.  There is no second guessing that things will turn out beautiful.  There is no wondering if healing is coming.  There is no stressing over how it is going to work out.  Just take a deep breath and TRUST in the character of God.  He is FAITHFUL even when we are freaking out.  So go ahead and try it.  The next time you start second guessing what God promised stop yourself and picture yourself sitting down in a chair.  Doesn’t take a whole lot of faith to trust the chair is going to hold you.