I Am Taken Care Of

“If you never take a step of faith, you never get to see the Lords faithfulness.”

     Sometimes it’s hard to take that step, to be like Peter and step outside of the boat.  Sometimes stepping outside of the boat means letting go and putting things at the foot of the cross, all of your control gone. Maybe it even hurts. But there is something that happens when we step outside of what we know and what is comfortable.  There is a release.

And that release is the Lords faithfulness.

     The Lord has been so faithful to me in the last year in many different areas in my life. But there has always been one area that I never really had to depend on God for and that was the area of my finances. I have been blessed to grow up in Canada and to always have an abundance of money, from job’s and family, even friends.  So I have never had to let God take control of this area and depend on Him for financial needs. 

      But after being in mission for the last year and a bit I have slowly ran out of that which I had saved.  And in the moment that I had nothing left the Lord asked me to step out of the boat and walk to Him.  It was easy to step out of the boat, I tend to have a lot of faith, but after I step out it’s very easy for me to take my eyes off the Lord and I begin to sink. But in that moment when you step out in faith that is when the Lord’s faithfulness is released.  You’re saying you trust Him, sometimes it’s just for a moment, but that moment is enough and He doesn’t forget that moment. In the past two and a half months I have had many moments where my faith lacked and I didn’t trust that the Lord was in control.  But it was always after those moments when I lacked faith that the Lord would reach out and show me he was faithful and that he was the ultimate provider.

    My step of faith was huge (for me), but He has been faithful and provided everything I needed. All the glory and honor to Him!