OUR BENEFIT IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF OTHERS

...real faith is the prayer that is so sure of a glad response. -- God Calling, November 1

There. That is what I am building today...real faith. I know I am in the building process by my many missteps, flapping gums, and perplexities...the perplexities being what was I thinking? in regard to my missteps and flapping gums.

I am comforted by my faith that God knows everything I am thinking, feeling, doing, being...and that's before I think, feel, do or be. God knows, has a plan for that, and already has worked it for my benefit. I call that the safety valve inherent to free will. It is our faith that opens the safety valve, allowing us to step out of our reasoning mind where we get stuck in rues, regrets and remorses...and that can be before, as and after we actually take action.

We read, memorize, repeat for others to hear, and quote often to ourself that He goes before us to make the crooked places straight...also, God can and will intervene in my life in my behalf...but until we actually move our feet forward, our head will keep us stuck in the words.

It is our moving feet that takes our free will out for a walkabout. Our reasoning mind will decide whether we do the next right thing or not...our faith trusts God will have already perfected the outcome. So we do...and dimdam if it isn't the exactly wrong thing!

Ah, here comes spiritual insight to save our day...we realize the exactly wrong thing as God's opportunity to make the crooked place straight...and for our benefit. Our changed mind knows our apparent mistakes are our building blocks in growing our faith.

Our faith begins to root with the glimmer of the reality that God's will done in our life is preferable to our will done in our life. When we make a decision for God's will over our own will, in effect, we decide to return our free will to God in exchange for his will.

The rest of our life is in growing that root knowing it for our benefit by being of benefit to others.

Thank you.