a Little More Each Day

"Faith is the complete confidence 

in the character of God 

whose ways you may not understand at the time." 

-Oswald Chambers

During the past 6 weeks spent at EBI, there was one thing that the teacher drilled every day in class: "Faith's foundation is God Himself." And each day we would start by studying and pondering a different name and attribute of God.

God is Jehovah.
   God is infinite.
God is omnipotent.
   God is good.
God is Jehovah-jireh.
   God is immutable.
God is omniscient.
   God is omnipresent.
God is sovereign.
   God is Jehovah-nissi.
God is El-Shaddai.
   God is Father.
God is Adonai.
   God is Elohim.

       Each evening as I walked the street near the school for quiet time, I prayed about the faith tests that I was encountering. Almost every day there were questions of surrender and consecration God was asking me. When thinking about those questions and how I would answer, the doubts and fears that wished to assail me were quickly shot down by the truth of knowing Who was requiring the sacrifice. These questions that should have provoked a knock out, drug out fight with my flesh and God's desires were rather simply put and simply answered. There were no other answer to those questions that a willing, covenant "yes." The Master called, and the servant answered.

God is Jehovah-jireh and there is no need for fear because He will provide. He is omniscient and omnipresent, therefore I trust His leading because it will not take me out of His protection and care. He is El-Shaddai, all sufficient and all bountiful; my all is found in Him.

This morning I was reading Isaiah 40 and verse 26 caught my attention:

"Lift up your eyes on high,

 and see Who has created these things." 

Faith lifts the eyes off of self and circumstances and earthly things, looking beyond it all and sees Jesus. I dare not trust and rest my faith in faith alone or it will falter and prove unstable. My faith is in God, not in what He will do and what He can do, but in what He is.

"Father, forgive my little faith." 

-Ann Spangler, Women of Faith