Andy Elmes: Breakfast of Champions

Good morning, Champion.

Faith leaves the how to God!

Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV)
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

When learning about faith, with the desire to let it further develop in your life, you soon discover that it is simply a matter of trust; not a matter of trust when you know how everything is going to happen, rather an issue of trusting when you have no understanding or idea of how God is going to make what He has promised you come about. Being human we always want to know the how or, put another way, the specific route to the destination that God has promised us. But most of the time that is not how God operates because He is wanting us to operate in faith. Faith itself is the substance and does not need to be accompanied with physical evidence (Hebrews 11:1).

When you study the life of Abraham you see how God operates in faith. When you gain the understanding of this it enables you to understand how to walk by faith with Him. At the start of Abraham's journey, God steps into His settled, secure world and says, “I have so much more for you”. When Abraham enquires concerning the route to this great destination all God says is, "Leave where you are at and go that way". No map, no sat nav, no co-ordinates, no idea of what was around the corner, or where the next corner was! Yet Abraham chose not to lean on his understanding but rather trust the promise and the Promise Giver. As he stepped forward toward the promise the route began to be revealed: at every bend he experienced the favour and goodness of God, and one day he arrived at the place God had promised. If you are waiting for the route, a map or for that moment you fully understand what God is asking you to do, my friend you may have a long wait. God is looking for those in this generation that will receive the promises He gives and walk in accordance to them, even when the how cannot be understood or does not make sense to your understanding. That’s faith.

What has God promised you? What is delaying you setting off on the journey towards it? Are you waiting for God to release the how: how is God going to make that happen, how is God going to provide, how is God going to open those doors we would need open?

There are never any shortage of hows with the faith walk, but faith is to entrust the hows to the God who has promised you a greater destination.

God bless,

Andy

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