Faith by Lavera Wade

 In Luke 17:5 Jesus says you already have faith, use it, nothing is impossible.

Corrie Ten boom wrote

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

John 6:29 Jesus said “This is the work of God that you believe in Him who He has sent.”

In Leo Tolstoys book Anna Karenia, the main character has just encountered God in great joy and looks forward to sharing this with his family. Instead, he quickly gets in a fight with his brother. The story illustrates something fundamental in the life of faith.  The alternations of joy and fear, peace and anxiety, hope and discouragement that the human heart experiences in its journey towards God.

Psalm 42 provides us with the psalmist’ experience with faith, and as is often true with the psalms, stories that were shared before there was the written word.  This psalm shares the souls struggle to find peace in the Lord, while tossed about on the sea of human experience.

Psalm 42 speaks to the belief that you might find hope in knowing that even when you walk mournfully your faith is with you, found when we remember that we are already empowered by faith.

How many times have you found peace when everything was falling apart around you, and you knew, when you had a moment to breath that it was God who carried you through.

How many times have you said the right word, or said nothing felt the Spirit’s hand over your mouth.

We do not get to be perfect in this life, what we are given is the love of God to share with strangers by showing kindness in small simple ways. 

May God continue to bless you in your faith journey.