faithfulness = trustworthiness or dependability
"Faith is the trustful human response to God's self revelation via His words and His actions."
Holman Bible Dictionary.
2 1/2 years ago, Chris and I stood before our friends and made our vows to each other. The bible verse that ran as the theme through our wedding was this:
"And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good for those who are called according to his purpose."
Romans 8 v 28.
It was on our unity candle, it was quoted in our ceremony, we had a song about it, it was inscribed into our wedding bands, we even had it printed on our M&M's!!
This verse reminded us and those who shared in that occasion, that we trusted in those words that God had revealed to us. We trusted that as we had witnessed God working for our good in all that had gone before, that we continue to see him working for our good in all that was to come.
That takes faith.
A trust that the things God had revealed to us through his word and actions would be dependable for the future.
I struggle to see that right now.
We are in one of the most daunting processes of our lives, a process that will determine the next several years of our married life, where we will live, what we will do.
Where we will call home.
We are in the midst of the ups and downs that it brings. I don't see that good that God has promised us.
I'm reminded (quite bizarrely) of a Coldplay song.
"Nobody said it would be easy
No one ever said it would be this hard."
I struggle to see where my God is working in this situation, how He is making it all come back to our good.
But faith is not about what I'm seeing. Faith is not about my feelings. Faith is not about my situation.
"Faith is the trustful human response to God's self revelation via His words and His actions."
I have no choice but to trust. To fully rely on what I have seen to be true of my God. To fully rely on what His word says to me.
That's hard. It's a choice everyday. I choose to allow God to work this for good, no matter what I think that good should look like, trusting that God is sovereign and knows far better than myself!
I choose to have faith.
