Where Have You Placed Your Faith?
It takes mindfulness to remain acutely aware of where you are placing your faith at any given moment. Faith can easily get misplaced when we are in the throes of day to day life and navigating circumstances. Misplaced meaning it is outside of being grounded in God and Him alone. We can sometimes operate by sight; which causes us to temporarily ground our faith in our own abilities and logic, other imperfect humans, or a tangible thing. Truthfully, it is imperative that we practice guarding our faith given everything happening on a macro level (world) and micro level (your personal world). Guarding your faith will require mental, spiritual, and emotional attunement every day. This is not to project it as a heavy burden of constantly checking in to determine where you are placing your faith, yet it is to encourage you to simply increase your mindfulness.
When you are presented with a decision to make, a direction to take, or navigating a situation that requires you to stand on faith - ask yourself what or who are you placing your faith in? Are you putting your full confidence in God, trusting He will guide you or supply your need? Are you putting your complete trust in your own strength and ability to make something happen? Are you grounding your faith in the abilities and logic of another imperfect human to show up in a way only God can? We do not have the ability to see the full picture of what is in our next moment, next day, nor future; God does. God goes before us and never leaves us to walk this life out alone (Deuteronomy 31:8), so we can trust that by placing our faith in Him that all will be well at any given moment. We may have to endure for a time as a test of faith and strength, but those are the times when we have to press in and take up our shield of faith (Ephesians 6:16). Let’s break the habit of temporarily placing our faith in faulty and worldly people/things that can never measure up to the Almighty and Sovereign God.
Joy Gem: "Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times." - Martin Luther
