Faith

I realized it has been many months since I last blogged.  Well publicly anyway... my therapy is to write all my feelings, stresses, hurts, successes etc in my journal - most of those are not blog worthy - but very soul worthy!  On my way in to the office this morning I got to thinking about why I even began to blog, one was a friend encouraged me to blog, but two I wanted something for my kids to be able to look at and see where I was during their years of growing up.  Maybe when they read this it will spark a memory, help with a struggle or remind them to always have faith.  My prayer has always been for them to be Leaders in Christ and only a Follower of Jesus. 

Faith according to the Webster Dictionary:
 :strong belief or trust in someone or something
 :belief in the existence of God : strong religious feelings or beliefs

 :a system of religious beliefs

One of my favorite stories in the bible is when Jesus asked Peter to get out of the boat and walk to him on water.  

 Matthew 14:29-31  

He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.” Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”

When I think of Peter I think of someone who is strong, a leader, courageous, loving, loyal - but with all those words that I have used to describe him - he did the opposite to Jesus at times in his journey. However, even when Peter took his eyes off Jesus on the water, Jesus still had Faith in him - He knew how great Peter was going to be.  He even knew Peter would refuse him 3 times before he was crucified, but Jesus still had faith in Peter. That is the wonderful thing about Faith: we have faith, but God also has faith in us - even in a world as crazy as the one we live in we can and should always rely on that.  He has faith in us even when we don't have it in ourselves.  

I want Trayce and Paige to know that if there is a way there is a will - life will be hard, life will be trying, life will be filled with doubters and no sayers, but if they stand in their Faith and have faith in what is right - they will walk through their journey of life with God as their leader and know that even when they look away or get scared like Peter did on the water, God is there for them - they just have to have faith!

2 Corinthians 5:6-7 

 So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight.