Simply Believe

One of the biggest struggles we often face as humans is the sheer volume of pressure we put on ourselves. The human race prides itself on independence, it is considered one of the greatest shows of maturity, the capacity to get things done without help. Well as followers of Christ that mindset presents a major dilemma.

We are not meant to do this life all by ourselves, we are followers so we are meant to be led by and depend on God. We expect we are meant to have all the answers, be able to solve all the problems for ourselves. It builds anxiety, you start to foresee issues that haven’t yet arisen.

The reality of it is, when this mentality of needing to control everything sets in it speaks to a lack of trust in the one you have supposedly handed the reigns over to.

“Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.”

- James 1:2-4 NLT

Why is it that the testing of your faith produces patience? Because patience is the evidence of faith. It takes patience to watch things go crazy but still let God be God. The reality so often is we ran to God cause we knew we weren’t able to do it by ourselves, yet when we watch things fall apart we think ‘well i have to do something’, and we snatch the wheel from God and try to control our destiny.

One of the must fundamental things in this walk in God is, it all comes down to believing Him. We over complicate our relationship with God, put pressure on ourselves to have the hard fies when on multiple occasions God highlights this all comes by believing.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

- John 3:16 NKJV

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God”

- Ephesians 2:8 NKJV

“And He said to him, “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.””

- Luke 17:19 NKJV

“And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.””

- Mark 5:34 NKJV

These are few of MANY examples of what believing in God will do. Everything else springs out of belief in Him. We spend so much time trying to work on all the symptoms when the root cause is what is your faith level. Let us work out our unbelief. From there will come hearing and obedience, vision and direction.

it takes prayer and supplication, intentional decision to trust Him and act on it when everything around and even in you is telling you not to. Once you fix your faith everything flows from that because God by His very nature acts on behalf of those on wait on Him, who are patient in faith in Him.

“For since the beginning of the world

Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear,

Nor has the eye seen any God besides You,

Who acts for the one who waits for Him.”

- Isaiah 64:4 NKJV