There was a good definition of Faith I heard recently. Faith is a belief in, a confident attitude toward God involving a commitment to God’s will for one’s life. Faith is confidence in the trustworthiness of God. It is the conviction that what God says is true and that what He promises will come to pass. Webster’s dictionary says unquestionable belief, having no doubt.
OUCH! As I am processing this, I suddenly have an understanding of why we are told so many times throughout the Bible to not worry, to not be afraid. We are told so often to not worry and not be afraid. Why? We are told to not worry and to not be afraid, because it is impossible to be walking in faith and walking in worry and fear at the same time. You just cannot do it.
Think about this, when you worry, when you doubt, you are, with your actions, saying that God is not trustworthy. You are saying that what God says is not true, that God’s promises are a lie. How that must hurt our Abba Father! Does that not burn in your soul when you realize how you have failed God when you doubt or worry?
Luke chapter 12 tells us how very much God loves us, values us, takes care of us, our every single need He provides. He tells us that the lilies of the field don’t even have to work and they are more majestic and more beautiful than everything King Solomon owned.
We are told the ravens don’t have to store up their food, they don’t have to hoard it or stockpile it, because God himself makes sure they have enough to eat. Then he says aren’t we better than they are? Aren’t we of more value to God than the birds of the air that have no eternal soul? After all, God did not give his only Son to come and die for their transgressions. No, He did that for us!
We are told that if God provides covering for the fields, why do we fear that God will not provide clothing for us? Why do we fear that God will not feed us? Why do we fear that God will not give us something to drink?
Why do we fear? Why do we doubt? It’s because we don’t truly have faith. We are not fully confident that God is faithful, that God is worthy of our full and utter trust. God cannot lie; His Word is true, and we can rest on it.
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Numbers 23:19
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; Titus 1:2
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, Hebrews 6:18
It is impossible to walk in faith while living in worry and fear. We know that God is worthy of our full trust. We know that God cannot lie. We know that God promised he will supply all our needs from his riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19) We know that we have absolutely nothing to fear. We have no need to worry and fret. We know that if it were not possible to completely walk in faith, with zero doubting, then we would not have been instructed to do so in God’s word. It is possible, and it is something we need to do.
God is worthy of our trust, and we are worthy of His love and provision!
The Spreading Love & Hope Challenge this week is if you are walking in fear and worry today, I pray that if your soul was convicted, as mine was, that you will repent, let go of worry and fear, and step out in faith, with a deep knowing that our God IS faithful (I Corinthians 10:13, I John 1:9) and He will supply all of our needs, after all, everything that exists is His already.
