Believe

Believe

May 19, 2016

Megann Graf

Psalm 25:1   In You, Lord my God, I put my trust.

We’ve spent the last 30 weeks going through a sermon series called Believe.  We have spent time thinking about what we believe, and why.  We’ve spent time on what we should do with that belief.  And we concluded with the kind of person we should become because of our belief.  While I’ll be the first to admit that it seemed a bit long going through this series, I think it really did walk us through the purpose of our Christians lives, and it revealed all the things we should continue to study, ponder, and think more on as we continue our journey on this earth.

This week, I found myself back on a focus of Prayer.  While I feel like I pray a lot, this week, I was not praying alone.  God kept opening door after door for me to pray with others.  It wasn’t something I had set out to do, or planned, it just seemed to happen.  It made me realize, that there are so many ebbs and flows to this Christian walk.  This “Think. Act. Be.” mentality is nothing more than working through our Christian walk here on earth. 

THINK

There will be times when I have to go back and think about what I believe and why.  At times this will challenge me and at times this will comfort me.   

ACT

This will also change throughout my journey.  There will be times when prayer, like I’m experiencing now, will take on emphasis.  But, that doesn’t mean prayer is all I do.  I have to acknowledge all the other “actions” that are important to my spiritual growth.  Giving room for some to take priority for a season, but aware that many are needed for me to grow.

BECOME

This is the outcome of my beliefs and my faithfulness to act on them.  If some of these are difficult, maybe it’s not them I should be focusing on, perhaps it is an action of worship, or surrender, or sharing my faith, that will be able to change my attitude of anger to love or from sorrow to joy.

For me, this week is prayer.  I love how it was written in the Believe book, 

“We serve a God who is not threatened by our questions and doubts.  We don’t have to put on a false persona to please him.  He permits us to be honest about our fears, our feelings of isolation and our disappointments.  When we rehearse our story before him, we see his personal involvement in our lives.”

Psalm 66:16-20

Come and hear, all you who fear God; let me tell you what he has done for me.  I cried out to him with my mouth; his praise was on my tongue.  If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; but God has surely listened and heard my prayer.  Praise be to God who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his love from me.

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