What it Means to Believe?

Throughout our lives, we've all heard some variation of why it is important to believe. We're taught to believe in ourselves, our dreams, our abilities and talents, and most importantly to believe in God if we're Christian. A friend of mine gave me a book about 2 years ago called Believing God by Beth Moore. The entire premise of this book is that while we all find it easy to believe in God, we don't know how to just believe Him because if we did know, we'd be able to trust and not doubt.

I was of course doing the church nod, the entire time that I read this book because I had been guilty of doubting God, even though I believed in Him. After reading that book and completing the companion journal. I decided that I was going to do more than just believe in God. I was going to start to believe Him in spite of whatever situations and circumstances I was dealing with in my life. I was going to learn to trust Him even when things weren't going my way.

Well, as God will often do, when you let Him know that you are ready to learn a new lesson and go to the next level in Him, He will provide you the situations to go deeper. It seems like from the point I made that decision, I started experiencing things in every part of my life that would teach me to keep believing in spite of. It seems like for the past 2-3 years that everything that could go wrong did: at work, in relationships, financially - you name it! But, trying to stay true to my new resolve, I tried to see every situation in a positive light and tried to refrain from complaining and see the blessings in every situation.

Being positive and believing is much easier said than done and is good in theory, but when it seems like all the cards are stacked against you, it takes a lot of inner strength, praying, and studying God's word to keep you on track. In other words, it truly takes believing God. Well, I'm glad I committed to it and stayed the course because now I can see a lot of blessings being bestowed in my life because I did not waver or worry but kept waiting on God and believing that He was working it for me, whether I could see it or not.

I'm so glad that I've learned to believe God and not just in Him. By allowing Him to do the work, I'm reaping more blessings than I'd ever imagined and know that more is on the way. When we move out of His way, God can do waaaaaaaay more on our behalf.

Commit today to getting in your lane, staying in your lane and believing God. That's all you have to do. Peace and blessings from the blogosphere.