Mom Heart Moments #6

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.

MAKING A DECISION TO STAND FOR and in faith means many things. It means I choose to believe the best and act in light of what Scripture says about God —that He is loving, righteous, good, kind, wise, and so on. I believe in light even when I find myself in darkness. I believe love is redemptive and is a perfect bond of unity, even when I am confronted with unloving, immature people.

It means choosing to believe that God listens to my prayers and that the prayer of a righteous person avails much —trusting that in His time, I will see eternal results, even if it isn’t on my time schedule.

If I put God on trial every time something difficult happened to me, I would only be unstable and insecure in life —wondering and fearing when the next trial or danger would come my way. But if I build my life on the foundation of believing in Him —sowing faithfulness and goodness —I will reap the blessing of freedom and peace.

I determined long ago to never allow my mind to wander to an active place of doubt. In the way that I made a promise to stay married to Clay and choose to love him unconditionally for all of our years, with divorce never being an option, my promise to God meant the same thing. As I look back over the years, my commitment has determined my behavior and has always pointed me to the source of direct instructions —always to God and His Word, always to faith, and always to obedience.

Do you believe that God hears you? That He will answer in time? How can you strengthen your soul in order to continue choosing rightly in the midst of daily challenges?