GO FORWARD BELIEVING

Morning blinding flash of the obvious: It's so hard to believe in God because we don't rely on him enough...we call on him, beg him, plead with him, but we don't trust him enough to rely on him.

The fact is we make it so hard to believe in God because maybe the promise of God is too wondrous for us to dare believe. Plus his fixes are usually the exact opposite of mine. Not to mention he is a slooow walker...I know, I got a flash just the other day that he goes real slow so we can keep up, but still....

The way to believe prayer works is to pray than go forward believing our prayer has been answered...and in the affirmative. Which boils down to...just do it.

Heck, if I'm going to have to do it anyway, why pray?

We pray to acknowledge the source of good (that's God) within us who is going to do the heavy lifting for us. Because if we could "just do it" without a little help, we wouldn't have been praying about it to begin with.

All of which means, our sole goal needs be building our trust in God.

We build our trust by relying on him. We rely on him by acknowledging his presence daily. Not to convince him, but to convince our own self. Than we can face our next "oh, no" or "oh, please" p.d.q., and quit wasting our breath and God's time praying about it and doing nothing.

Thank you.