Faith Renewed

In life there will always be something that lets you down.

Even in a cynical world such as ours there was once a popular song called “got to have faith”.  How true.

With this being said faith is something I believe we so often easily lose or get lazy with it. Here are two things lately that have renewed my faith, albeit though very common occurrences that happen in everyday life.

1- The weekly newspaper that had not been delivered to me for about two months is now coming every week.  To top it off, it is even in a plastic bag to protect it.   Who knew that last phone operator had such pull.  The reason this renewed my faith is that often when something dumb like this happens I think, “oh great things are not going my way.” Rather a missed newspaper delivery or a burnt out light bulb or flat tire are in essence just everyday normal inconveniences.  A better way to live is to get the problem fixed or get over it and move on and not blame God for it.

2-Funerals tend to renew my faith.  Just about three weeks ago I was at one for an eighty six year old dear friend of mine.  It is one thing to talk about faith in God and an altogether different thing to live it out.  But, it was reaffirming to know that my friend is now with Jesus because my faith tells me that is where she is, no doubt about it. 

Something that confounds me from time to time is when I hear about people who have lost their faith in God.  Their loss of faith was due to tragedy or that God just didn’t show up when they felt they really needed Him to do so.    The Bible is very adamant that without FAITH it is impossible to please God.  As a follower of Jesus I know that I follow a God who can’t be defined by our human standards.  He simply can’t be put in a box.

Our faith can be renewed every day by just witnessing every day miracles such as the sun shining and the grass growing which no man can ever explain.

Swavel