Holding onto your faith when it's tough

This post is for those of you who are having a really rough time, like I have been. I've recently been through a big, long, painful medical ordeal with a painful artificial knee (pain even after it's been a year), and serveral times during this ordeal I thought I was going to die.

And I was OK with that, because since Jesus is my savior and He paid the price for all my sins, I know exactly where I"m going after I die, and who I'll be with.

What I wasn't prepared for, was keeping on living...in an uncertain world with a knee that's a big question mark, having had my finances and business DECIMATED the last 8 months, and having to build it all back.

So I suffered a huge crisis of confidence the last week...can I do it, is there enough work out there for me, can I get that work? I guess the only thing good here was that I assumed if I could get the work, I could do it. But getting work is always the hard part for a freelancer.

Then my wonderful husband expressed his confidence in me, and in my ability to get work...and this morning I had a wonderful vision of God holding me cupped in His hands, lovingly.

In Luke, Chapter 8, we see Jeshua telling people that God's message can be like bird seed...some of it falls on a path, where's it stepped on and birds steal it, others fall into rocky places where it blooms for awhile, then is choked out, some falls within thorns and is eventually choked out, but others fall into deep soil.

In the first, the seed that falls on the path, is like people who hear God's message but then Satan comes along and takes it out of their minds and hearts to keep them from trusting God and being saved. The rocky places are like (CJB, Luke 9:) "accept it with joy, but these have no root--they go on trusting for awhile; they go on trusting for awhile, but when a time of testing comes, they apostatize."

The ones in the middle of the thorns heard the message, but then "worries and wealth and life's gratifications crown in and choke them so that their fruit never matures"

But if your heart is rich soil--you are truly receptive--then when you hear God's message, you hold onto it with a good and trusting heart and by perservering, you will bring forth a harvest.

Do you believe? Even the demons believe, for they know God and Jesus exist!
But do you TRUST GOD?

I've had my own faith tested...and it is being tested...and I choose to always put my trust in God. He always takes care of me, always shows me the way. It's usually NOT easy, and it always takes some work. But He will show you the way.

For now, for today...let go and let God have your worries and your stress. Pray to him, confess your sins, repent of them, tell God your troubles and ask his forgiveness and ask Him for His help...and He will never, ever, let you down!