April 23 (Isaiah 7:9)
If you are
not firm in faith, you will
not be firm at all.
(ESV)
One
thing I have learned in a lifetime of walking in the Christian faith is that it
is a daily thing. Jesus was right (no
surprise there!) when He said that we must take up our cross daily if we are to
follow Him (Luke
9:23). Day in and day out, sunny or
raining, when you are happy and when you are bored out of your mind, when you
feel on top of the world and when you are under the weather. All.
The. Time.
You
will not always feel like being a Christian.
There will even be times when you slip back and behave as if you had
never even heard of Jesus. You will
question the Lord’s love for you and perhaps even His existence. These are the times that faith comes in. We cling to faith when our fingers are too
weak to cling to anything else. We stand
on our faith even when we look down and see nothing. We proclaim our faith to drown out the
voices, including our own, of unbelief.
You
will fail to do all that God has required.
You will do the very things He has forbidden. And yes, these will happen even after you
have been baptized and confessed Him before all the world. Yet if you are firm in faith, you will grow firm
in your other weaknesses.
Jesus, today seems like just one more in an endless
string that stretches behind and in front of me. I have questions about so many things and
answers to almost none of them. Keep me
strong in my faith, which is in You. May
I not waver or falter in that faith, for it is what keeps me anchored to You,
my strength and my redeemer. Amen.
Copyright © 2017 by Steven R. Perkins
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