Faith is an important part of life. It is the ability to trust someone or something because you believe they are reliable, honest, or competent. When a person has genuine faith, it will show up in their actions. It is at work each day, not only in our spiritual life, but also in our everyday activities.
For example, you go to a doctor whose name you cannot pronounce and whose degrees you have never verified. He gives you a prescription you cannot read. You take it to a pharmacist you have never seen before. He gives you a chemical compound you do not understand. Then you go home and take the pill according to the instructions on the bottle. All in trusting, sincere faith.
What God requires of us is that we would simply apply the same trust to Him that we often give to our doctors without a passing thought. When God gives us a prognosis or diagnosis for our life, He wants to obey His instructions with a simple, sincere faith.
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
-Proverbs 3:5-6
What areas of your life are you needing to trust God with? Are you listening to His prognosis? What would it look like today if you trusted God with a simple and sincere faith?
Sometimes what God wants you to do will not always make sense at first. However, your faith is not in a situation, it’s in a savior. Even though your circumstances may be fuzzy, God’s character is quite clear. That is what your faith is in, the personal character of God. He does not lie. He keeps His promises. He loves you.
So, when God tells you what to do, “you just gotta have faith”.
Even when you don’t see how it will all work out, “you just gotta have faith”.
When God shows you a plan that’s different than your picture of life, “you just gotta have faith”.
Why is this so? Because He is faithful.