What Is Everyday Faith? (part 2)

Faith: belief without proof; trust

Today, I want to tell you a little more about what I mean when I say "everyday faith."

Let's say that we have the faith to believe that we can get a big, fine car or a beautiful mansion. Those things are amazing blessings, BUT let me ask you this - how will they help you eternally? After all, you can't take those things with you when you leave this earth. What's really going to help us eternally is knowing, understanding, and believing that God is working in our lives, along with the understanding that whatever is going on in our lives is a part of God's master plan - even if it's unpleasant. Even when it feels like the pain is too much - the knowledge and trust that He will see you through is the kind of everyday faith that God wants us to have.

Let's take Noah, now he had that everyday faith. When God warned Noah of the coming flood and told him to "make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch" (Genesis 6:6-14). Noah believed God and began to build an ark as he was told. Noah and his family labored on the ark for 120 years. That's a LOOOOOOONG time to hold on to some faith! You have to know that people laughed and talked about him, but Noah had that everyday faith. He knew that God was right there with him to protect, to provide and to give him strength to build the ark - in spite of what others said and thought. And when the flood did come, Noah and his family had a place to ride it out because of their everyday faith.

On the other side of the coin, we don't want to be like the children of Israel. They saw God do miraculous things. They witnessed the Red Sea part as they walked across on dry land. They watched as Pharaoh and his army tried the same thing, only to be drowned in the same water that stood apart for them. It seems to me that when you behold an awesome miracle like that, you should have no problem having everyday faith. Yet they murmured and complained about not having water and not having food. What part of that sea parting that made them think that God wouldn't take care of them? That's a simple lack of everyday faith, my friends.

If you take away one thing from today's post, I hope that it's the knowledge that we must trust God each and every day and rest assured that He is right there with us, always. As Hebrews 13:5 tells us, "for He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."

With all that said, let the Church say Amen... and AMEN!