I’ve been learning a lot this year – or trying to! – to hold fast and stand up in faith, regardless of how I feel. The world and my feelings can be all over the place. I might be facing genuine challenges and hard circumstances. But God good, and is constant, so my faith in Him can make me more constant too.
Kevin’s train analogy helps me. Our faith is the engine that ought to drive us; the facts of God’s eternal and written word are the fuel that feed our faith; and our feelings follow after. My natural tendency is to do the opposite, or even let my feelings be the whole thing! But God’s promises are greater, He speaks a better word, and He has given me faith.
One of them is about provision. How much more valuable are we than flowers and birds! And yet they do not worry about food or what they’ll wear. This dawned on me one morning a few weeks ago, realising just how much I have to be thankful. So I wrote this poem.
it’s Saturday morning,
the sparrows are feeding,
the lilies are clothed,
and I’ve forgot just what
i was worrying for.
praise the Lord.
Mark Day.
