Is God calling you to walk by Faith?

Matthew 6:25,31-33

²⁵ "I tell you, do not worry. Don't worry about your life and what you will eat or drink. And don't worry about your body and what you will wear. Isn't there more to life than eating? Aren't there more important things for the body than clothes? …Your faith is so small!

 ³¹ "So don't worry. Don't say, 'What will we eat?' Or, 'What will we drink?' Or, 'What will we wear?' ³² People who are ungodly run after all of those things. Your Father who is in heaven knows that you need them.

 ³³ "But put God's kingdom first. Do what he wants you to do. Then all of those things will also be given to you.

Faith is a funny thing.  I want more of it but I am afraid to step into it when it is placed in front of me.  And if I have it, it is counted to me as righteousness.  This is something that God is teaching me to live by.  If I shouldn’t be worried at all about the little things (they feel like big things sometimes), what am I supposed to do then?  I should put God’s kingdom first, do what He wants me to do, then God will give us all of “those things”. 

So, what does “those things” represent?  What is God nudging your heart to do these days?  What is He asking you to use your faith for?  What is He saying to you that makes your heart feel that twinge of fear?  Maybe that is where He is calling your heart to learn to “walk on water”. 

“Why are you so downcast, O my soul?  Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.” Ps. 43:5

My husband and I have been asked to take that step out onto that “water”.  It’s scary and so very hard to walk out each day.  I noticed in this verse though that David said out the faith in his heart, “for I will yet praise him”.  The word “yet” tells me that at that moment, he is not feeling any praise or does not have the strength or faith to praise God yet.  So, how did he get to that point of praising God? 

A bit earlier in verse 3, David says something very cool.  “Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me;  let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.”  Wow!  Here God shows me that when I am not sure what to do next, when I am starting to worry about this step of faith that God is asking me to do, when I am asking why the enemy seems to be winning, I can ask Jesus to send His light.  Where there is Jesus’ light there is no darkness or confusion.  The questions are then replaced with His peace and the truth of His Word and His Spirit guide me. 

That is how I got today, to the place of praising God.  Jesus’ light shone into the questions and worry and in their place I had His peace and faith to praise Him. 

Is God calling you to walk by faith, too?  Is He asking something of you that feels too big for yourself and your circumstances?  I hope this encourages you in some way along the way...