Another post on Faith and Trust

Been reading a lot on things to do with faith and trust in God lately. I started off reading in Ephesians where it was simply talking about how great God's love for us is and it made me think of how much God really does deserve our praise and faith in Him. Then I started reading in James, because I love that book. James 1:6 says-

"But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind." (NIV)

I've always had this verse memorised, and like I said in my last post I don't know why because I never really knew the meaning of it till recently. Now I can read it and the meaning is so clear- God wants us to trust him. If you are struggling with something in life and ask for God's help, but don't really believe he's going to help or that he is able. I'm sorry but nothing is going to change, if you want that problem to change then you need to learn to trust God and have faith in him. I don't know why cause it doesn't really connect with this verse so great but on the topic of faith in my head I thought of Job. So I started reading there where I have another two favourite verses.

"The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised"
Job 1:21 (NIV)

"Shall we accept good from God and not trouble?" Job 2:10 (NIV)

I've actually always found these verses funny. Not in a bad way of course, but just thinking that it's so true! We are always so quick and happy to accept anything good given to us from God as a blessing, but as soon as we're given a hardship we whine, complain, tell God that our life isn't fair, and just kind of lose our faith and trust in Him. Reminds me of the Israelites and when they were in the desert. They were very glad to praise God when they were delivered from Egypt, but as soon as God tested their faith along came the complaints. They lost their faith. Don't let hardships in life cause you to lose faith, because faith is extremely powerful.

"I tell you the truth, if you have faith, and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to the mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and it will be done." Matthew 21:21 (NIV)

Now, I really hate to break it to you, but that mountain over there isn't going to throw itself into the ocean for you unless you have some sort of secret power us regular humans don't know about. But, this verse really is a great example at just how powerful your faith in God can be. If you truly trust God, then he can do some very amazing miracles in your life.