Do You Trust God?

Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; AND HE WAS NOT FOUND BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM UP; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God. 6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

God has this way of working in my life that leaves me uneasy many times.  He calls me to do things that I am unequipped to do, at least in my fleshlyness.  The root of the problem is a lack of faithfulness in my life in the small things.  The things that I know to do but don't.  God calls us to love others and to treat them better than ourselves, to sacrifice for His glory and the good of others when it is inconvenient.  He wants me to forgive others just as I have been forgiven.  That means restoring a relationship as if the offence had never occurred, opening myself up to be hurt again.  Jesus tells us to look at His life and go and do likewise.

This something that we cannot do without strong abiding faith in Christ.  Trusting in Him for both the power to do what He has called us to do and that He will do in us exactly what He promised to do.  He wants us to trust Him.  Faith isn't really faith until you have to stepout into it.  When you have nothing else to hold onto - to depend on.  It will either strengthen and grow or crumble because it was never real.

We have got to learn to be faithful in obeying what we already know to do.  To depend on Christ to give us the grace to do what we already know to do.  The power to obey is not resident within ourselves, but must come from the indwelling power of God's Spirit.

Simple actions of faithful obedience will cause us to find faith the kind of faith that can take us through anything that God calls us to do.  Start with the basics, major on the minors.  Spend time in pray and in His word to find out what he is calling you to be obedient in today.