Walk By Faith

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Lately, the concept of ‘walking by faith’ has been on my mind a lot. Many people I know are facing lots of different challenges. It’s hard to watch others facing challenges, and it’s hard to be in a challenging time. And then to remember that we’re supposed to walk by faith – sometimes that seems to make the whole process just a little more overwhelming.

Why walk by faith? Why should we trust God to lead us on the challenging journeys in life? Why would we trust Him through the valley? Why don’t we take the reins and steer our own course through the challenges of life?

Think back to the last big challenging thing in your life – maybe a sickness, maybe a death of a loved one, maybe a time of financial hardship. Perhaps it was something even more difficult.

What did you learn from that situation?

And honestly, I realize that you might feel like screaming at me, “I learned nothing! It was hard and cruel and I hated it!” I hear you. Loud and clear! And I believe you, too. Can I encourage you? I’ll even whisper it: Don’t give up; please keep going.

We’re all on challenging paths at one point or another. We may not even realize what we’re learning or that we’re learning something. But if I know one thing, just one, it’s this – God is faithful!

You may not have found what it is that God wants you to learn. I feel that way, too, with some of the challenges and struggles in my life. Sometimes I wonder, too, if there is even anything to learn.

Here’s the thing – we may not know what the reason was for the hard time we endured. It may even be that God is using it in someone else’s life, as a testimony for His glory.

Did you begin the struggle (and I don’t mean that like, ‘did you pick the fight,’ but rather, did you have to start working through the hard area)? Did you travel down the road? And did it, eventually, end? Maybe the end isn’t here yet. Maybe you’re still walking. But other struggles – they ended at some point, yes?

If we can learn one thing, you and I together, and only one thing, maybe it needs to be this:

God is Faithful.

So, why should we walk by faith? Why trust God in the valley?

Because He is faithful. He promises to restore the years the locusts have eaten (Joel 2:25). He promises to be with us, all the way (Deuteronomy 31:6 and Hebrews 13:5).

I love this passage from Isaiah chapter 61, verses 1-3:

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.

Isn’t that beautiful? “…oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor.”

Why ‘walk by faith’ and ‘trust in God’? Because He holds us in His hands; He has a plan for our lives; He can take the mess of our lives and use it for His splendor!

If you’re struggling to walk by faith, can I encourage you? I am praying for you. I am trusting God with you. I am walking through valleys, just like you, and I am trusting my future, my journey, my days, to a God I can’t see with my eyes, but I can feel with my heart, because He is faithful!

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