Faith Noodles

Wait, wait for God to fulfil His promises. Even if He does not strip you off your fear immediately, wait and keep trusting Him, His Word that nothing can ever separate you from His love. Don’t hesitate to doubt your own perceptions of your situation. In proportion to your tribulations shall be your consolations! If you have shallow sorrows, you shall receive but shallow graces. But if you have deep afflictions, you shall obtain the deeper proofs of the faithfulness of God! As your days, so shall your strength be.. so let the days be long and dark, because they involve great grace and unusual patience.

I blame the difficult trials of my life for my lack of faith. That these prolonged trials erode my faith little by little as time goes by, and I start to have lower and lower expectations of my great God. But now God is causing me to see that my lack of faith comes from my own inability to trust in what I cannot see when the odds seem so against me. My desire to retreat to believing in what I can see, what's safe and not desiring to invest my heart's passions and desires into what I know God is passionate about too. It is much easier to dwell on soothing emotions of self-pity than to discipline my mind to focus on God's great truths. Yes, if I don't pass my next exam in 4 months, I may never get registered as a clinical psychologist, there is so much anguish as I struggle with the possibility of this becoming a reality.. but oh, how this truth I am blogging about so refreshes my heart. This dream God has put in my heart, I want it so much. I want to spend the res...

As you lead me through this valley of vision Let me see You in the heights For I know that I know that I know that I will find: Your grace in this valley Your hope in my hopelessness Your joy in my sorrow Your wealth in my need Your nearness in my loneliness Your healing in my brokenness Your light in my darkness Your sight in my blindness and confusion Your grace to forgive and get up again Your love and courage to face what I fear Your strength and glory in my weaknesses The more I lose, the more precious You become to me The lower I go, the more I yearn for You to make my heart Your home on earth That the deeper I go into darkness The more I see Your radiant light. Shortly before a gunman murdered her, Virginia Tech student Lauren McCain wrote in her diary, "Show me Your purpose for me at Tech, and on this earth. But, if You choose not to, I will still praise You and walk where You lead, not because I am selfless, or holy, or determined to ...