When life is not going as planned, where is your foundation?
Faith is an interesting topic. I can’t make you believe, I can only tell you what I know, have lived and experienced. It’s often in how you look at the situation, and is never really black or white. God exists and works in all the shades of gray.
Lots of thoughts have been swirling about this past week as a year ends and one begins. Faith doesn’t show up one day like a flash of lightning. It’s built, slowly over time, with millions of small choices, to do the right thing, to believe even when you can’t or don’t see it. You are creating the foundation to weather the storms of life.
The storms come without fail in every season of life. Is your foundation strong, built on faith or is it built on the shifting sands that depend on if you like the circumstances?
Three years ago to the day, I was unemployed and had no idea how I would pay my bills or what I would do for a job. The holidays were over and it was time to start looking for a new job, essentially a new path in life and I couldn’t see how that was going to happen.
I was driving home from a friend’s house and the one hour drive became two- lot’s of traffic. The thoughts swirling about in my head were “God, why? how? what do I do now?”. A few miles from home, on the highway, I felt the most enormous hug and was filled with such a sense of peace that everything was (and would continue to be) ok. I didn’t need to know how it would turn out, knowing that it would was (and is) enough for me.
As soon as I arrived home, I texted lots of people about the experience. It was as if I had been preparing my entire life for that very moment. Every choice, right (or wrong) in my faith journey up until then, meant that I was able to receive the message God was sending.
I build my house with Jesus’ help every day. It’s a continual process. God desires to be in relationship with us. How is your relationship with God? Where and on what are you building your house? If you have built your house on sand, you can change that. To quote my fortune cookie this week- “Today is the day. Start now”.
