GodReflection: Tenacious Trust
I suppose each of us who places our faith in Father, Son, and Spirit, arrived at belief by different avenues and experiences.
Dissimilar or similar, not another soul on earth experienced the exact identical situation that brought me to follow the Holy.
Just as my life experiences were unique to me—never to be repeated by another person—so are your experiences unique to you.
For some the battle to claim faith as profoundly heart indwelt was long and difficult. For others not so much.
The more intense battle for all may be on another front.
After seven decades of life in God’s family I find to have arrived at faith was the easy part. The hard part is what faith demands.
It will always be a challenge to live and grow in my trust of God when faced with opportunity clothed in the unknown.
Is it possibility to live faith with a consistency that will allow full-out trust in God to become a lifestyle?
I don’t remember exactly when it came about, but at some point I claimed the joint two words Tenacious Trust as the descriptor for my journey to learn to live faith.
I have come to believe tenacious trust describes more than arrival at belief in God and more than any attempt on my part to keep faith alive in my inner core.
It has to do with guts and courage to walk by faith. It has to do with a “bull dog” tenacity that comes from feeling the call of God so deeply that causes action in spite of the odds.
There are many more times than I would like to admit when I’ve failed miserably in my willingness to step out on faith and exhibit the guts and the trust to act when I knew the proposed action aligned with God’s redemptive purposes.
My failure to act was because I could only envision resources for steps one, two, and three, but failed to trust God to provide for steps four, five, and six.
Will my faith ever show the tenacity to trust God EVERY time?
It is my aim over the next few posts to explore this very question.
How can I grow tenacity in my trust walk? How does my own wiring aid or hinder my desire to trust God in every situation?
How does creation, resurrection, and promises from the Holy influence consistency in my walk to live daily with a heart of tenacious trust?
What about the birds and the flowers? Does Jesus story apply to me?
Aware of my own humanity, is it even possible for tenacious trust to morph into a lifestyle?
Can God do more through my life if I surrender more?
My intent is to spend the month of June in thought and investigation on such questions in hope that I will arrive at a greater clarity on the role tenacious trust could play in my walk toward eternity.
I would love to have you read over my shoulder and enlighten me with your own doubts and questions. I suspect we all follow similar threads and share similar commonality as we continue to uncoil the ball of faith.
Stay tuned.
Dr. Gary J. Sorrells
A GodReflection on Tenacious Trust
Gary@Godreflection.org www.GodReflection.org
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