See a Penny, Pick it up, and all the day....

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 So how many of you finished the rhyme when you read today's title?  Go ahead, you can admit it, LOL.  I wasn't sure what I was going to write about today, but as always Spirit is good, and after taking the dogs out for their walk, getting my coffee, and sitting down at my computer, resting on my mouse pad was a Heads Up Penny.  Knock me over with a feather, I now had today's topic, God is good.

I know the saying says, "and all the day you'll have Good Luck."  But there is such a huge difference between luck and faith, and I wanted to delve into faith, and how with just a little practice, you can turn your life around forever. We all have faith, some times it's for the little things, sometimes for huge.  Honestly it takes the same faith for little or big.  So what is faith?  How do you obtain it? How does one understand faith?  Most importantly, how do you keep it?  All good questions, and today I'm going to try and answer all these questions.  

Faith in its simplest form is believing that things are, before they are.  You go to bed at night with a faith that you are going to get up the next morning to conquer your day.  You have faith that when you put the keys into your car's ignition, it's going to start.  Now to the ordinary person this is simple faith.  What if what you want to do or accomplish is monumental?  What if you are seeking faith to move a mountain?  What if you are attempting to raise someone from the dead?  Once again, to the average person, these last two examples are going to take a huge amount of faith.  Problem is, most people don't realize that the faith to raise someone up for death's grasp, is no different than starting your car in the morning. Sadly, most people, and I know I am generalizing, but most people put limits on faith based on the task a hand.  It's easy to believe for the simple, not so easy believing for the difficult, or in some cases the impossible.  

Our faith gets tested daily.  There are some who exercise their faith routinely, other's try to extend faith, but only when they are on their last leg, only when times are desperate.  Problem with this scenario is how can one expect faith to work, if they haven't taken faith out for a spin so to speak, before the preverbal poop hits the fan? Faith is not just for trying times.  Faith is not only when "We" need it.  Faith needs to be a daily part of your life, and faith needs to be understood.  Problem is most don't understand, and certainly most only seek out faith when they are at the end of their rope.  If you believe in the perfection of your creator, then why is it so difficult to believe in your perfection, and even more importantly, that what you desire has been placed in you since the beginning of creation?  I often said this: If God placed a desire inside of you, do you think it was placed there just to play with your mind?  Do you really think that God gets his/her jollies by showing you something, and then taking it away as a tease?  It doesn't work that way, and if you think it does, grow up.  

"Let Go, and Let God" is a term we often hear, yet it is something we have difficulty with, and that is because we have yet to learn the simple concept of faith.  Faith in a Creator that can't be seen, is the same faith that will move mountains.  Faith in believing for this or that is really the foundation of our creation.  This world is being tested right now.  We are going through times that many never imagined.  If one can not exercise faith, they are going to be washed away by that torrent of doubt, which has held you captive for far too long.  When I sit down to write on Sunday mornings, I have faith that God is going to give me the words to write.  I never doubt it, and this morning was a prime example.  Honestly, I did not place that penny on my mouse pad.  I was in the shower this morning, and I had no idea what I was going to write about.  I'd have a thought about something, but it didn't seem concrete.  As soon as I sat down and saw what had been presented to me, not only did I thank God for "Pennies from Heaven", but also for the sign of what needed to be presented to each of you today.  

I recently shared that I am going through a rough patch with some family issues.  I have had to simply let things go, and remind myself that Creator God is the absolute authority in my life, and all things will work out for my benefit, and those around me.  When we let go of our expectations, and instead seek the perfection of all things, it is easy to extend one's faith, and know that things will work out.  I am not powerless.  I have power from on high, and with said power I release all things so that God's perfect timing, God's perfect love, and God's perfect plan can come into being.  We often try to create things that really need not be created.  Certainly we have ideas, and thoughts, but how often do we screw up things because we doubt, we fear, or we simply don't have the faith to wait in the perfection of things, and try to do things on our own timeline, and not God's? 

True faith is knowing who you are.  True faith is knowing that what has been placed inside of you, was placed there for a reason.  True faith is knowing that things will happen as they need to happen, and nothing that you do can change that.  When we try to orchestrate things outside of the perfection of God, this is when we will begin to have issues.  

One can depend on luck to get through a trying time.  One can look at luck, and place all their dreams on a chance outcome.  One can even look at luck, and hope for the very best.  If you take a penny and flip it, you have a fifty/fifty chance of it coming up heads.  If you embrace faith, true faith, you have a 100 percent chance of being where God wants you, being what God wants you to be, and doing those things that you were created to do.  

There is no doubt that our faith will be tested.  Things will come and go that will test our faith, but the testing of one's faith, as it is written worketh and creates patience.  Faith, while a seemingly abstract thing, is anything but abstract.  The only ones who think this, are the ones who don't understand faith, who don't believe in a higher power, and who will try to do all things under their own power.  Yes, there might be some success in doing things under your own power, but trust me when I tell you this: the time will come when you will have to have faith in something, and if you have never leaned faith, at that moment where one is tested, they will fail. 

Emily Matthews writes this, "At times, life's path seems filled with things that make the going rough, and we wish there were a smoother road, for we feel we've had enough...But, if we pause a moment and remember who's in charge, the hills that loom ahead of us no longer seem so large, and every rock before us, when we know we're not alone, becomes, not just a stumbling block, but one more stepping stone."  This my friends is faith, this is truth, and this needs to be our life. Faith is knowing that all things are going to work out in the perfection of our Creator, and when we can have confidence in that, then and only then will faith be a permanent fixture in your life.  Know this, faith as tiny as a mustard seed can move a mountain.  I send you love and light today, and I know that our best days are ahead of us, no doubt, no fear, and know the peace and joy that comes with a life filled with faith.