Taking Steps

I can take steps! Yes, it is a rare privilege to start on a journey with a few steps. I can take faith-filled, prayerful steps in Christ to solve earthly problems. Jesus did say that we can accomplish nothing alone. True, nothing we attempt alone will last, if it appears to work, or will work out at all. I have run into that many a time. Also, even when taking steps in Christ, the fastest way to the goal may be the long way around. Instant miracles are great, praise God, but we don't always go that way with our Lord. Sometimes, the Lord lets us behold something along the way to a better life. That problem that dogs our heels is not immediately solved. We have faith in the Lord's almighty power, but He doesn't act on our timetable. I think we've all run into that in our journey too. We may hear about or witness an act of God that is instantaneous in healing or solving, and then wonder why He does not do the same for you or me. Faithful steps in Christ in our journey may be the slow ones on the long trip around the mountain of our problem. Those steps are faithful because we trust God that His way is the best for us.

An immediate solution may not grow the faith God wants to raise up in us. Yet, I also believe that when we look back from Heaven, we will agree that every one of God's solutions was perfectly done in just the right time. The blind beggar may have suffered long before the immediate healing by Jesus. The healing we experience that seemed to take so long may have come with only a short space of suffering before it began. We will not look back on this life and say, "Unfair!" to God, as we may be tempted to say right now. We may think that we were delayed in beginning the journey now, but then we will see how God guided us just as He promised. Faith allows us to see these things right now, if only dimly as in a poor mirror, to borrow Paul's phrase. Faith gives us courage to take another step on the journey with Christ, even though the step may be slow, tottering, short, and hesitant. God accepts those steps too.

Have a great day with our awesome God!
Bucky