Day 6 of Your Journey
Faith Can Become Natural
Faith is often counterintuitive; or, more simply put, it goes against what feels natural to us. For instance, it doesn’t feel natural to wait on God. What feels natural is to push ahead to solve our problems.
It doesn’t feel natural to give; it feels more natural to hold onto what we have. The same can be said of almost any step of obedience we take as an act of faith—it usually feels unnatural to us.
As we obey God, however, faith becomes the natural response. Each step of obedience strengthens our trust in God, making the next step easier to choose.
When Jesus rebuked the disciples in Matthew 14:31 for their lack of faith, Mark tells us that it occurred because they had not learned the lesson from Jesus’ previous work in feeding the five thousand (Mark 6:52). In other words, each lesson of faith should prepare us for the next.
If the old saying is true that “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” then it can also be said that the walk of faith begins with a single step of faith. What is your “step of faith” today?
Making It Personal
Lord, today I need to walk by faith to please You. Would You show me a specific step of faith I can obey to show Your power?
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