Tested Faith

Have you ever had your faith tested? You know, the kind that shakes your world. The shaking that leaves you crying and confused, the kind of shaking that has you questioning everything you ever believed in? You thought you had everything figured out but something happened in your life that awaken you to the reality that you really don’t. A sudden change in your life’s journey, maybe a divorce, a scary medical report or a need or perhaps an unanswered prayer. I call this a Detour.  You now question everything you ever known including your faith. It seems that everything has been crumbled and nothing is left standing. The world that you knew has changed.

How can I pass this test you maybe asking?

How can I regain my focus and my strength?

Recently I took a flight to Dallas Texas for a men’s conference, and as I was in the airplane meditating on the aircraft I received some inspirational truth that I believe will help me focus on what God is calling me to do, in ministry, business and in life. I began to look out the window, and here is what I saw.

Perception. Look at it this way.

At 35,000 feet the world looks different. Everything looks smaller, and unimportant. Once we took off, the sky scrappers no longer seem huge. The higher we went the smaller everything that was left behind us appeared.

 I Started thinking about my struggles and worries and how sometimes I lose myself in them. How can I accomplish my goals, how will I pay my bills, ect. All legitimate excuses to be worried about. Yet looking out the window changed my perspective maybe these issues that were causing me to worry weren’t so big after all. Worrying wasn’t changing them; maybe I was looking at them from the wrong perspective? 

Could it be that your struggle or situation might not be as big as it seems?

Now I understand personal life changes, they are hard. Yet deep down in my heart I know that as hard and big it may seem, the God I pray to is much bigger. So what do I do to get into this transformation process so that I may look at this life change differently? It’s called perception. Perception is how you are looking at a particular thing, situation, or problem.  

If you look at the sky scrappers from the ground up, they seem huge because they really are. If you look at your situation down and out complaining and feeling sorry for your self, that problem will get bigger, for you have enlarged it. Yet, if you change your view on it and declare that this problem, this layoff notice, this loss of my job is really an opportunity to start a business, or spend more time with my family, then you are going up. High up. You are no longer seeing the sky scrappers from the ground up but from the air down. And the higher you go, the smaller your problem or situation will be.

When you go higher, and see how small everything really is, you will realize How Big God is. So big he calls the earth his footstool and heaven his throne. Now thinking about this doesn’t change your situations or get your bills paid, I understand that. But it will change how it will affect you. Your perception will change how you respond. And that is the most important thing. How you respond.

Friends God is in control of your situation. I understand it maybe hard, and it may feel dark. I would like to remind you that if you begin to change your perception towards your troubles, your joy would come. There is a breakthrough coming your way. Just change your perception, instead of complaining and feeding fear, feed faith, and be grateful, that yes it maybe bad, but it could be worse. It’s not as big as it looks. Your God is bigger. He promised to never leave you or abandon you. So if He is with you, you can overcome.

Have you been looking up or down? How do you feed your faith?

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