And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to Him must believe that God exists and that He rewards those who sincerely seek Him. Heb 11:6 (NLT)
When you first become friends with someone, you don’t immediately know them completely. It takes years to know someone truly. I’ve been married to my husband for ten years, we’ve known each other for fifteen, and I’m still learning new things about him. A lot has changed since the day we met in a small church hall when I was 17 and in my final year of High School. As we go through different seasons, different challenges and joys, I see him from different perspectives, revealing parts of him I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.
Depth of relationship takes time, experience, and faith.
When we first encounter God, we don’t instantly know and understand Him completely. We get a feel for His love and grace, for His will and ways, and that understanding grows day by day, experience by experience… Through faith.
It’s our faith in God that propels us to seek Him out. That deep sense of knowing that whatever season or situation we’re in, God has more of Himself to reveal to us and express in us that He wouldn’t have been able to in other circumstances. I have faith that Jesse and I will be together till the day we die (cue romantic violins) and that faith I have in him (and ultimately in God) is part of the glue in our marriage.
Faith is a journey, not a destination. It doesn’t make robots who don’t have any independent thought or initiative… It asks questions knowing that there is more to learn. It has great expectations of hope and goodness. It seeks, studies, participates, has a go, keeps moving forward and looking for ways to journey down the path of God’s will and purpose. Faith has eyes and ears, it speaks and walks. It is the driving force of our ‘seeking.’
Keep on seeking… there is more to know, there is more to experience, there is more of God to be revealed and expressed in you yet. And this season you’re in now, have faith that He’s right there with you beckoning you to seek Him out and find Him in this moment. You might see something you’ve never seen before.
Keep on seeking…
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