Faith in God

Faith is something that is so personal. Some days we seemed to have loads of it to spare. We know in our hearts that God is there and will meet all our needs.  

Faith is something that keeps me going daily. I have so much in my life right now with family, health, and financial issues, but I am going to look to God daily for my needs. He doesn’t always provide the way I expect Him too, but He sees a much larger picture of my life than I do. 


I will be honest I have days though when I throw major pity parties about things. My faith is tried, and I wonder is this for real. I have been a Christian all my life, and I still have my own unanswered questions. 

The big question is how can I convince others that God and Christ are real when I struggle too? Those days I dig into the word and pray harder. Do I always get the answers I want? No, not at all.

I think if God handed me everything and made life easy, in the long run, I wouldn’t appreciate Him as much.  It is like if you give your child every desire in her heart, she expects it and thinks it is her right. She doesn’t learn. She doesn’t mature. She doesn’t become a better child. Spoiled children care about what they can get; not what they can give.

Another major question that burns in many minds: If God is an all knowing, loving God, why do bad things happen to good people?  I pray for the people in Washington and all those families who lost loved one in that terrible mud slides. I pray for the families who do not know where their loved ones are as the search for Flight 370 goes into day 31, and the black box’s batteries are about to die. 

The grief and the emotional devastation is unimaginable. I have only lost my dad thus far in my short (long) life. I can relate to grief, and I can share my own experiences with my Dad’s sudden departure from this world. Life and death are God’s plans for us.

My Dad had his own personal struggles too, but in the end, he found God. The day he died, he marked all the Bibles in house to 2 Corinthians 5.  I was amazed as I picked up his study Bibles. He had five translations.  

I wept when I opened I looked at the first Bible and read verse 1:

“For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”

Just minutes earlier, I was crying and upset because my dad had died of a massive heart attack all by himself in my parent’s home. I was upset that he spent his last day without us.  God took him home so suddenly.

I needed comfort and saw his pile of Bibles by his chair where he read and studied. I picked the first one up and it was opened to this scripture. Then I looked at the second and it too was open to versus 6 through 8 which brought me so much peace. 

6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

In the end faith in God is a daily walk until we are privileged to cross to the other side. God is calling all to him.

Please leave any prayer requests in the comments. I pray for all Christian and non Christian alike.  God bless you. 

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