God, I'm sorry!

I am amazed at the things that God uses at times to make some things more clear as I learn more about him and grow in my walk.

I will admit that there are many times in my life that I had felt that true faith and trust can feel like it is impossible to achieve. "Faith is hard to put into practice" I would reason. And it would seem that worry would be more natural for our sinful nature... faith seemingly unnatural and something we would need to work at.

Tonight I read something that made complete sense, and made me realize and be honest with myself in facing all the excuses I have made in order to not exercise faith.

From The Way of The Master

"I have heard people say, "But I just find it hard to have faith in God," not realizing the implications of their words. These are the same people who often believe the weather forecast, believe the newspapers, and trust their lives to a pilot they have never seen whenever they fly in a plane. We exercise faith every day. We trust our car's brakes. We trust our history books, our medical books, and we trust elevators. Yet elevators can let us down. History books can be wrong. Planes can crash. How much more then should we trust the sure and true promises of Almighty God. He will never let us down . . . if we trust Him."

OUCH! So my excuse of faith not being a natural thing for my sinful nature goes right out the door with the rest of my excuses. I do trust in every day inane things... and I put my trust in things and people who can, and sometimes do let me down, and here I am making excuses for not putting trust in a God who will never let me down. Put that way it sounds incredibly foolish doesn't it?

I think that we have lack of faith and make excuses for it because we believe lies that were told to us one way or another. There is no excuse for sin. The Bible tells us that to worry is sin... and worry is a lack of Faith.

~God thank you for allowing my eyes to run across this. Forgive me Lord, for trusting in things that can let me down, and not trusting in you, the one thing, that one person who will never ever let me down. Teach me to dispel the lies and the excuses that I have held on to for so long, create in me a clean heart, and restore a right spirit with in me. When I am tempted to exercise a lack of faith in you, bring this conviction to my memory. I praise you Jesus for not willing to let me falter in my excuses, and thank you for showing me the truth so that it will set me free. You are worthy of all praise, all Glory and honor.

Thank you for your continued work in me . In Jesus name Amen .