Faith is about how you live your life in the meantime, how you make decisions when you don’t know what for sure is next. What you do with yourself between the last time you heard from God and the next time you hear from God is the ongoing challenge of a life of faith.
From Anita’s Wall circa 2006. Not sure the source. Here is one from right beside it:
How easily we fall into futility. The effort to improve out life just isn’t worth is, we assume, and the prospects of success are too remote to merit pursuing a dream.
However, we find much of God’s will for our life by doing the obvious. We can be confident there is purpose in our plodding ahead, for as we are faithful to our responsibilities, God is full of surprises.
Appreciating how fully God is at work in the circumstances of our daily life can give us the heart to press on. It is wonderful when, from time to time, we are able to take major steps of faith. Yet in between such occasions, we can enjoy the same exhilaration of faith by taking the small steps, knowing we’re participating in God’s bigger picture for our life.
And sometimes, even the smallest step opens us to an unexpected blessing from God. This is a basis for beginning each day with the highest expectations, and for living it with energy and hope.
I’m reading The Will of God as a Way of Life by Gerald Lawson Sittser and his emphasis is on the “daily-ness” of obeying God. Sometimes the highest service you can do for God is hugging a child, feeding a granny (we’re caretakers of my husband’s 103-1/2 year old grandmother), and keeping a mother happy.
We often emphasize the BIG decisions – where I’ll work, who I’ll marry, etc. but it’s the little bitty daily choices to be kind, to listen, to spend time that make all the difference in the world.
The above message from Anita’s journal encouraged me today. Praying for you and your blessed family.
Cherie Miller