Help My Unbelief!

This will be a short post, but I wanted to share something God has been speaking to me. Lately I've indulged worry and anxious thoughts, about wedding plans, about work, about my future. And Jesus was right: worrying doesn't add any hours to your life. And I'd say it ruins those hours you do have.

So I've been praying that God would help me to trust Him. I was reading in Romans 3, and verse 3 seemed a font size larger than the rest of the page.

"What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God's faithfulness? Not at all!"

Short yet deep.

What's it saying? God is still trustworthy even if I struggle to trust Him. His character does not change just because my feelings do. The depth and purity and fact of who He is does not depend on whether I feel it to be true or not. Thank the Lord that our lack of faith doesn't nullify His faithfulness.

Faith isn't just believing that God will do what He said He will do. It's also believing that He is who He says He is. When feelings contradict the truth of the Word, I can cry out like the father of the demon-possessed son did: "I do believe; help my unbelief!"

Every one of my days needs this reminder, that in the fluctuation of my emotions and circumstances, God is still the same.