It's Easy For God

Seen on a decorative plaque in a small shop in Snohomish: “Faith makes things possible… not easy.”

No one said it would be easy. Well, except maybe the love-light-and-bliss bunch… but ya’ll know my considerable opinion of THAT camp and their aspirations. Truth is, some days the whole faith, prayer, relationship with God, thinking big, I’m a believer thing is just a whole lot of freakin’ work… without a lot of seeming progress or reward.

So it comes back to the most important element of the entire process: PERSISTANCE. Keep going, even when you don’t want to. Persist in believing, even when you doubt. Persist in prayer, even when the words feel and taste hollow in your mouth. Persist in expecting God’s help and favor, even when it appears from all outward evidence that He’s apparently taking a very long lunch.

There’s a Bible verse (Galatians 6:9) that says: “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap if we do not give up.” FYI: “Doing good” would be that aforementioned faith, prayer, relationship with God, thinking big, I’m a believer thing. :-) God’s actually the one who has to do the hard stuff in our lives… all we have to do is keep holding the space for Him to do it. Faith makes things possible, by making room for God to make EVERY thing possible.

There now… that wasn’t so hard, was it?

“And for God, it is easy of accomplishment, and His time is now.”