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Unswerving Faith

Keep your course, steady as she goes

As long as our lives are going along as we plan everything seems rosy, but let something interrupt our joy and we understandably get upset. I remember as a child taking some dominoes and stacking them up high in a little tower; they would be placed one on top of the other ten or twelve high and all perfectly balanced. Since I would have an investment of time and effort in building my little tower sometimes I would want to leave it up for my family and my friends to see. But there was this one kid in the neighborhood that tended to be jealous of anything anyone else had or did and I hated to see him come over. Seeing my tedious work and vulnerable little building project he would just have to shake the table or pull a domino out from the bottom to destroy all my efforts. I entertained the thought many times of feeding him to the monster that I knew lived under my bed!

It’s hard sometimes to keep our faith up when someone or something comes along and shakes the table under us! Maybe it’s an emergency trip to the dentist, or one of our kids or grand kids gets into trouble. Maybe it’s some not-so-good news concerning a medical exam we had. The Bible tells us faith is: believing in that which we cannot see or understand. That old saying; “Seeing is believing” is not faith!

Listen to how this Hymn of Faith from (Habakkuk 3:17-19) testifies to faith; “Though the fig tree may not blossom, / Nor fruit be on the vine, / Though the labor of the olive may fail, / And the fields yield no food; / Though the flock be cut off from the fold, / And there be no herd in the stalls, / Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, / I will joy in the God of my salvation.” No matter what, we must continue to have faith, faith in ourselves, faith in our leaders, and above all faith in God! We must have unswerving faith! Not faith that is blown about with the wind like the little seeds of the dandelion.

You and I are children of God. He is ever watchful and concerned for our welfare. He is both our shield and our strong tower. Stay steady in your faith for He is faith-full to provide for you.


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