Neverland

Faith can sometimes feel like it is hard to muster. Like a muscle that is about to give out.

Sometimes things just seem too big to ask for or overcome.

Believing for a spouse.

A graduation.

A child.

A job.

To get clean and sober.

To be healed.

It is easy to doubt, to give in, to give up. It is hard to wait and hard to hold out for what seems to mean so much.

And be so far away.

Sometimes these come quickly and unexpectedly, like a thief in the night.

Sometimes they never come.

Usually, they take time and perseverance.

And faith.

But, faith isn't something we must produce. Faith, and the measure of such is given. (Romans 12:3)

Did you hear that. It isn't that we don't have enough faith or that we don't use enough faith, but that we don't rest in it.

Resting in faith is completely different.

You don't get tired or weary resting.

It recharges and sustains us.

Resting in faith; however, is the opposite of your first and even second and third instinct. These are to fight, flee, or freeze.

But, they are just instincts.

The desire of our hearts is to rest.

To trust someone else will handle it.

Take care of it.

Take care of us.

The resting is having faith.

When we rest in our faith that the Lord will take care of it- this is having faith.

It is resting even though it seems like we "should" be able to make it work- but the puzzle pieces won't fit.

We are to rest even though we think and hear others tell us it is "never" going to happen. That it can never happen.

Don't give up and enter Neverland.

The Kingdom is at hand.

All things are possible.

Enter His Kingdom's rest.

Under His rule.

God is in control. You can choose to rest or pretend you are in control.

Like a bed, you have faith.

Now get in.

Rest.