Five Minute Friday is upon us again. Yesterday I needed to work so I didn’t have time to set down and type something up. And I know that the thought the doubt resides has been brought up before with Five minute Friday even if I can’t find the post! 🙂 But its good to reconsider words isn’t it? To look deeper and see who God is indeed eh? 🙂
Doubt Resides
Throughout my life
Doubt resides
Can I do it?
Is my faith enough?
What will I do if something bad happens?
At the end of my days will people say
she could have done so much more?
Is living a simple life really okay?
Do I show my hubby enough that he
is a hugely important part of my world?
Do I tell my son enough that I love him
and like the person he is becoming?
Is having a simple faith enough or
do I need to work out my faith harder,
Developing a more complex knowing faith
in the God who created me?
Sometimes I imagine that
my faith is simply a figment of my imagination,
that God talking to me directly
is just something I make up.
And then I’m reminded in his word
that those who seek him find him,
and the quietness in my heart that
resides after I’ve sought him out
suggests to me that it’s not all my imagination.
The directness of his word telling that
one isn’t drawn to seeking him without his action in one’s life first.
And since that reassurance lives
I don’t have to doubt what I’ll
do or how I’ll behave or if my
faith, as it stands, is sufficient.
So should you have doubts in your life
consider this.
He who called you is strong
enough to save.
What does God have to say?
Romans 8:38-39
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
1 John 4:4
“Greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.”
1 Peter 5:8-10
“Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings. And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.”
And since that reassurance lives I don’t have to doubt what I’ll do or how I’ll behave or if my faith, as it stands, is sufficient. FMF #26
Indeed eh Deirdre? 🙂
I love the line you put in “those that seek Him, find Him”. When I quiet my heart, mind, and soul focusing on Him, His voice becomes so clear.
Such a beautiful poem!
Visit from FMF #29
oh thank you so much Yvonne! 🙂 We need to listen for his voice don’t we?
I grapple with so many of those questions myself and have to constantly remind myself to believe the truth of God’s Word rather than my feelings. Feelings can be so deceptive.
Sandra, that is so true. Our feelings lie to us all the time.
‘Sometimes I imagine that
my faith is simply a figment of my imagination,
that God talking to me directly
is just something I make up.
And then I’m reminded in his word
that those who seek him find him…….’
I so needed to hear these words tonight, Annette. Thank you for your honesty and reminding me of His unchanging words and promises.
Kath, visiting from FMF #34 this week.
God is gracious in letting my words be useful. 🙂
Annette, this is beautiful. It was such a treasure for me to have read today. Pausing to reflect on your words today.
FMF#27
Thank you Paula, much appreciated.
That’s a comfort indeed, knowing that God is faithful and at work in us even when we doubt our own faith. Perhaps that’s why he tells us we only need start with faith as small as a mustard seed?
quite possibly eh? 🙂
Facts, faith, feelings – in that order. When we focus on the facts found in God’s word, the feelings fade into the background, as they should.
sometimes it hard to keep that all straight you know? Sometimes we have to seriously work it out.