What Faith!!!!

Reading: Job 3-4 and Luke 7

Scripture: Luke 7:9, When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, said, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.”

Thoughts: I know that I have faith, and I know that God has done things through me, yet I still struggle and I wish I had faith like this Centurion. I know that when reading the Bible, we are reading the highlights reel of thousands of years of history. Even looking just at the Gospels each book primarily covers the 3 years of Jesus’s Ministry on earth, so I know that there were many days and many things that happened in those three years that were down times or not worthy of being written down. As we walk through our day-to-day lives, we need to remember that just because we are not seeing God’s big moves every day, it does not mean they are not happening. As we walk out our lives stay in the Word of God and seek him the best you can. Salvation may be a one-time covering but we are all on the journey to sanctification and I know there are parts of my life that have been in a state of arrested development and that I need to put more work into and seek God in those areas.

Prayer: Father God you are so wonderful, I thank you that you placed it on Luke's heart to put the encounter with the Centurion into writing that we could be encouraged by it. I thank you that you are not done with me and that, even when I fall back into my old ways, you are still calling me, still working with me to make me the husband, father, and man that you call me to be. Open my heart to your correction, open my mind to hear your voice. Help me soften my life and my heart, making them moldable so I can be formed.