dailydatewithgod

Do you ever notice that you keep reading or seeing a word over and over through the course of several days or weeks?  These are what I call little nudges from God. The in-between date check-ins that happen when your are in a dating relationship.  I know that if I keep being presented with the same idea multiple times it is important for me to pay attention.  Even if it is not obvious to me why it keeps popping up, I have learned to listen and ask questions.  Trust is the word that keeps coming up for me.  Many years ago I came to understand that it is not enough to just believe in God.  I must rely upon God.  I heard once that belief is like believing that Evel Knievel can make the motorcycle jump over those many cars and faith is getting on the bike with him.  What good is my belief if I never put it into practice where it counts?  Belief in action is what faith is.  Holding your breath and your hope in the power of God as you take a chance on a new relationship, talking to you boss about a raise, moving to a new city, saying goodbye to a loved one, etc.  All the things great and small that we fear we cannot do but know that we must. God is that missing ingredient or rather trust in the belief that lies within our hearts and our souls that God really is who we believe God to be.  For many it is having just those experiences in the darkest of times that allows us to see that God is greater than our human capabilities and we need to build that muscle of trust because our own power has only gotten us to where we are in that dark moment.  Those defeating experiences are not because God is not enough, but because we are not enough.  We are not enough, not because we are flawed but because by design we are not meant to be enough on our own. We are designed to connect with a power greater than ourselves and to create a community around us.  If we look at how cells are designed we see the same things.  And we on some levels are a great big walking multitude of cells.  Our design is perfect.  We are not broken or flawed, we have simply gotten disconnected.  Each day we are given opportunities to embrace the truth of who we are.  That truth is that we are part of a greater whole and while our ego wants us to believe that we are separate we must trust in a real way and take a chance that our ego is not the only  authority.  My prayer for you today is that you be willing to take one small area of belief and create a trustful experience of faith by taking a chance on God.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen