Give Faith Room to Move

 

 

Matthew 6:26(NLT)

“Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them.  And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are?”

There are some of us that have been in circumstances where we’ve worried so much about a situation that faith had no room to move at all.  When we worry or have fear about an issue or situation, it’s a red flag that we’re not trusting God enough. No matter how big or small our problems are, Heavenly Father expects us to look to Him, because there is no problem that is too big for Him to handle. Jesus Christ tells us in Mark 11:24 that when we pray, we must believe that God will answer our prayers, and He will come to our rescue. We must also remember that we can’t have faith and fear at the same time. Both of them are huge and take up an enormous amount of space in our hearts and minds.

In his teaching in Matthew 6:26, Jesus Christ points our attention towards the birds. They live very simply, not worrying about where their next meal is coming from. They don’t worry about other birds or anything else that might hinder them from getting food. Heavenly Father has provided for them in nature. If He does this for birds, imagine what He will do for us. We are His children, and He loves us very much. This is very plainly taught by our Lord and Master, but we humans have a way of complicating even the simplest thing.

We become so wrapped up in our problems and issues that we forget who we are and whose we are. 1Corinthians 6:19-20(NLT) tells us, “Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.” Our bodies are God’s sacred shine because they house His Holy Spirit. His Spirit is continually communicating God’s thoughts to our human-spirit. The Holy Spirit and our human-spirit are in perpetual communion, reminding us of our union with God through Jesus Christ. So, our bodies have never belonged to us. Every aspect of who we are belongs to our all-powerful and all-knowing, One True God. God’s commandment to us is to live every day as if we understand that we belong to Him and He belongs to us!

Can life be challenging? Indeed, it can be, but we must not let panicking in fear put the practice of trusting God in faith in second place. Trusting God should be our first go-to in every circumstance. Our tribulations might look very big to us, but they are infinitesimal compared to the love and power of our Heavenly Father. He can handle them in less time than a blink of an eye, but the resolutions to our issues and problems take time because God wants us to exercise our faith. We can’t bring Him down to our level, through faith, we must step up to His level. We must change our focus from seeing the problem as big to seeing our God’s love for us and His power as the greatest force in all eternity.

You have to ask yourself if you believe you are worthy and lovable? God says you are, and this should always be enough. Philippians 4:19(ESV) tells us, “And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” There is no end to God’s riches, just as there is no end to His love. In this same Chapter, verse 6, Heavenly Father tells us not to worry about anything, but to pray about everything. And after we pray, we are to give Him thanks for all that He’s done for us and will do in the future. Anxiety and worry move us to distraction. Through our devotion and trust in God, we can turn those moments of anxiety and worry into moments of worship and praise. We can allow our faith to cover our problems and issues with gratitude. When we do this, we please our Heavenly Father and give our faith in Him room to move.■

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV) is adapted from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

“Give Faith Room to Move”, written by Kim for https://rescuefromdomesticviolence.blogspot.com© 2021. All rights reserved. All praise and honor to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior