Faith

Faith...It's what this life comes down to. Over the past month, I've been working my way through reading the New Testament. And literally every page is either "you of little faith" or "your faith has healed you". We may not realize it but we have faith just about every second of the day. You have faith at night that when you go to sleep, you will wake up the next morning, when you get in your car and drive you have faith that your brakes are going to work, when you sit down in a chair you have faith that it is going to hold you up. And every single day we have faith that this spinning ball that we call the earth is still gonna continue to orbit around the sun exactly like it is supposed to. What is funny is we/I trust that to God every single day and do not even think twice about it. Yet I have such a hard time trusting him with things such as making the grades I want in school, where I am going to go to physical therapy school, who to date or who not to date, etc. And not to make our problems seem small, but I am pretty sure if the earth just fell from the sky we would probably be a little bit more worried about that than which boy to date or which graduate school to apply to. So why is it that we have no problem trusting God with the huge stuff, but we have such a harder time with the smaller things? I cannot tell you the answer. Maybe it is cause we typically do not think about the bigger stuff. Maybe we just expect God to keep the earth afloat, even though we have no business expecting any such thing of God. He is still God and He can do as He pleases. It is funny cause as I have been thinking about all this stuff with faith tonight at church the verse they taught from was James 1:2-3 which says "When troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow." God just keeps blowing my mind with "throwing" faith at me. So what this verse has come at me with is that when troubles come into our life, no matter how big or small, we should think of them as joy because it allows us to grow in our faith and our patience. God wants us to put all of our trust and faith in Him. And really if we can't trust our lives to the Creator of the universe, the Creator of you and me, who really can you trust? So here is my petition, If we can trust God to keep this ball rotating around the sun or heck, even trust Him enough with our eternal beings, how much more should we trust him with our future, our relationships. He loves us. He's not gonna jeopardize us. He is looking out for our best interest. And I feel like if we were to genuinely trust Him, He would bless us beyond measure. And one last thing, trusting him include times even when we do not understand what He is doing. I recently read a quote from the book crazy love that goes perfectly with this it says "Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating, but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable of understanding."