Finding Faith

 

Did you know it was lost? 

              There are times when faith is misplaced or spent on the wrong kinds of things.  

It can consume us…

 

We place too much faith in…

                                                  this:  thinking if we just had a little more of it we’ll be happier and better off

but it doesn’t ever seem to satisfy our longing for more.  

                                                                           Sure it staves off the hunger for a while, but soon…

 

 

 

 

 

we hunger for more, and so our faith

in money is just never satisfied. 

 

 

Other times we place our faith in 

friendship.  

Sure we need friendships, and relationships. 

We need to laugh and to cry and to have people in whom we 

can confide…

 

                           but…

 

when our friends become our faith

                            when we would do anything for their attention 

                                                     when faith turns into an unhealthy obsession

                                                                                            at some point 

These friends are NOT going to always be there for you…

                                                                              and so…

                                                                                     your faith in friends gets…shattered.

Finding faith in government or power is also equally devastating.

                                                We can pour our souls into following a political candidate 

                                                                            or campaigning for a specific cause 

 

 

 

and these are can be good things…

                                                        but it these faiths in government 

                                                                                     and

                                                                                          power

                                                                                             and 

                                                                                                 causes 

consume us

 then we are no better than when we began to place our faith here.

Real faith.

        Real devotion

                 Real relationships

                          begin and end with the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

God wants so desperately for us 

 find our faith in Him.  

Faith isn’t some 

wish list          

or dream

Faith can be found.  

                                                   The question is 

                                                           are you prepared to look?  

 

 

 

 

 

(These thoughts are ideas were created specifically for “Pastorsponderings.org” for the expressed desire to intrigue, motivate and compel us to search for our own relationship with Christ.  This is free to share and use so that God’s message may be spread and heard.  May the Lord have all the glory and honor!)