Faith is not an event, it’s a journey. It has highs and lows you will go through valleys and mountain tops, you will learn things in the valleys you will never learn on the mountain tops and vice versa.
“We have been rescued from our enemies so we can serve God without fear.” (Luke 1:74)
When we think of faith we think of strong people walking tall but faith sometimes has tears and sometimes it crawls. I have come to discover there is really three steps to this journey we call faith…
1. Take the first step
Step out the boat! Most people are scared to take the first step but if Moses never took the first step into the Red Sea it would have never departed. I really believe and have experienced in my own life that when you take the first step, even when it doesn’t make sense, doors open for you to walk into your calling.
Another reason people don’t step out is they are fearful about falling flat on their face. We have questions like “what if it doesn’t work out? what if people laugh at me?” And so on…. Let’s look at Peter who got out the boat and walked on water. He made a mistake and took his eyes off Jesus / Yeshua, looked at the world and started to drown. But Jesus / Yeshua Immediately reached out His hand to help Peter up and He will do the same for you! I believe God is happy that we would even try in the first place.
2. Have faith in the middle
The second step is the hardest out of all three. It’s having faith in the middle. It’s easy to have faith when things are going well, it exciting when you take the step out but it’s not so easy when you are in the valley and don’t hear from God that much. I think many Christians believe they are failing at this part but if you keep going you will see that you are not. It actually takes more faith in the middle to keep going.
Think about a a dark tunnel when you first enter you have geared yourself up to go in but are still nervous, at the end you are still scared but you have hope because you begin to see the light but man in the middle is where you can panic when you don’t know how far you have to go. You just need to trust you will get to the other side.
Think about Moses and the faith he would have had to have in the middle of the Red Sea. He had big waves at each side with whales and sharks and what not. The other side looked so far away and he had two million people he was trying to rescue as well as getting chased by really angry Egyptians in the middle of the Red Sea.
Man it must have been hard for Moses! But God was with him and He is with you. The Bible says walk by faith, not step by faith, indicating that faith is like walking, it continues and keeps going. Faith is a journey.
3. Finish the journey
The last step is to finish. The faith journey will never stop until we get to Heaven and even then I’m not too sure it will, but it takes faith to finish things. Whether that is a project or a season in your life it takes faith not only to finish it but to finish it well. I know a lot of starters but not a lot of finishers. Let’s model the words of Jesus / Yeshua “it is finished.”
That could be the vision, the dream, the idea that God gave you that you started and even made progress towards but you never got round to finishing it. This could be due to the busyness of life or insecurities, it wasn’t good enough, what went wrong? People lose focus and put their faith somewhere else but put if you faith in Jesus / Yeshua, He will give you the strength to see it through.
Have Faith! Have it in Jesus / Yeshua!
This article was written by Scottish youth pastor, Steven McLeish who serves at Destiny Church, Glasgow. He is also a spoken word artist with several videos on YouTube. These can be watched on his Spoken Light channel.