Keeping the Faith

This is a word of encouragement to keep the faith.

Sometimes waiting on God is hard, even when you've accepted the truth that His timing and ways are best. It's ironic how He can move faster than the twinkling of an eye yet other times be agonizingly slow.

When I try to figure it out I just get confused and discouraged.

But when I remember His love for Me (and for each of us, since He's no respecter of persons), and that He's Faithful and True (Revelation 19:11), I realize He cannot lie, He will honor His Word, and He will keep His promises (Numbers 23:19, Romans 4:20-22). I remember that He watches over His Word to perform it (Jeremiah 1:11-12). I remember that "Forever, O Lord, Your Word is settled in heaven" (Psalm 119:89). I remember that if I keep the faith, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Philippians 4:13), including to believe that He will do what He says He will do, no matter how I feel, what circumstances look like or what "the people say."

And I also know that in Him, I have the victory, and no weapons of doubt, disbelief or any other ungodly thing, will prosper against me (Isaiah 54:17).

I thank and praise the Lord for His goodness and for the fact that in Him "there is no variation or shadow of turning," (James 1:17) that He's the same yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8).

"And this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." (1 John 5:4).

Amen.