Finding Faith

Finding your faith

Do you feel that God is in your life?

Do you thank Him nearly every morning for a new day?

Do songs from church cause you to sing them or hum them or whistle them throughout the day?

Do you have spiritual reading material?

Do you read the Bible because you want to?

Does Gods presence help you enjoy your workday and the people around you?


Or is your life a little different than that?

You feel no one understands the problems in your life and there’s no one that you can turn to.

The act of waking up and getting ready for work puts you in a bad mood.

Your favorite rock radio station that came on with the alarm gives you some obscene words to sing.

Reading is restricted to only what is required and certainly not something to be enjoyed or enlightening.

You have a Bible given to you by your grandmother when you were young but you haven’t seen it or even remembered it in years.

Work is something to be endured and from which there is no escape because it makes the money you need to survive and stay ahead of the bill collectors.

Putting up with the idiots is worse than the work.

Taking the first step toward finding your faith is asking God to tell you about himself. This acknowledgement allows Gods presence, which by the way is available to everyone of us, to enter your life. When you turn toward God you turn away from yourself in the sense that when you accept Gods plan fro your life, hand in hand comes the realization that the reason for feeling unable to make your life joyful is mainly caused by following the wrong plan. Like it should be you at the center of your world.

When you drive by a construction site and see a new project rising out of the ground, whether it’s a house or a high rise you see workers busy at many different jobs. If you continue to drive by that site every so often you will see whatever it is they’re building, take shape and eventually all signs of construction disappear and they’re this new facility complete with landscaping, and regular looking people coming and going.

The reason those workers complete the job properly is because there’s a plan for them to follow, a set of blueprints, a thick sheaf of engineers drawings covering every detail of what is required to achieve the finished product. And don’t believe they get it perfect. As the workers follow those plans they find errors and omissions and sometimes they come up with better ideas that cause the plan to be changed. But imagine if those workers showed up and were simply directed to build say a 10 story building and given only a few photographs of something similar to go by. What kind of building do you think they could build…without knowledge of exact dimensions or the specific structural requirements and buildings codes?

That is what choosing to live you life without Gods plan is like. When you choose to fully accept Jesus Christ as your only savior and you fully accept that God has a specific and exact plan for you personally, you want to know how to follow that plan and know its details. God’s word is the blueprint and once you begin to trust and understand that His plan for you will make itself known to you each and every day for the rest of your life here on earth.

Trusting God, loving Jesus and having the Holy Spirit working within you will bring you a life with riches you could never imagine when you were trying to live life with only your own insights and capabilities at you disposal.