"By faith Abraham..."
I don't think anyone can understand this passage until they truly live only on faith. These ancients did some incredibly crazy things in faith. Noah built a massive ship on completely dry land. Sarah had a child when she was 90 years old (doesn't that sound like something you read on the front of National Enquirer?) Moses lead a group of slaves out from under a rule of a great and mighty nation, without a fight (well, not a war).
"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for."
I have never had to live on faith. I like to think I do, but I don't. I am the plan B planner, the overpacker, the what-iffer. Somewhere between pricing out flights to Hyderabad and measuring my couch for storage I had to stop and shake my head and say "This is completely crazy." (I like to think that Noah had the same thought as he was measuring gofer wood.)
"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful."
But this, this calling, has changed things. I have no Plan B. I'm not sure I even have a Plan A. For the first time I feel like I beginning to experience what it means to live completely on faith in God's plan. And while I still struggle with freak out moments, there is something freeing about not asking "What if?".
"God had planned something better for us..."
In those moments of struggle God has proved His faithfulness to me over and over again. He has given me a new contact in India who is super prompt and is patient with all my questions. He provided me with an American girl to rent an apartment with in Ongole. He surrounded me with prayer warriors and people to encourage me.
"Look at the birds, free and unfettered,...,careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds."
The concept of letting Go and letting God is a new (and sometimes scary) one for me. But ever so slowly I am claiming in faith that where God guides, He provides.
I don't think anyone can understand this passage until they truly live only on faith. These ancients did some incredibly crazy things in faith. Noah built a massive ship on completely dry land. Sarah had a child when she was 90 years old (doesn't that sound like something you read on the front of National Enquirer?) Moses lead a group of slaves out from under a rule of a great and mighty nation, without a fight (well, not a war).
"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for."
I have never had to live on faith. I like to think I do, but I don't. I am the plan B planner, the overpacker, the what-iffer. Somewhere between pricing out flights to Hyderabad and measuring my couch for storage I had to stop and shake my head and say "This is completely crazy." (I like to think that Noah had the same thought as he was measuring gofer wood.)
"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful."
But this, this calling, has changed things. I have no Plan B. I'm not sure I even have a Plan A. For the first time I feel like I beginning to experience what it means to live completely on faith in God's plan. And while I still struggle with freak out moments, there is something freeing about not asking "What if?".
"God had planned something better for us..."
In those moments of struggle God has proved His faithfulness to me over and over again. He has given me a new contact in India who is super prompt and is patient with all my questions. He provided me with an American girl to rent an apartment with in Ongole. He surrounded me with prayer warriors and people to encourage me.
"Look at the birds, free and unfettered,...,careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds."
The concept of letting Go and letting God is a new (and sometimes scary) one for me. But ever so slowly I am claiming in faith that where God guides, He provides.
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