Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led. But it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of faith, not of understanding and reason— a life of knowing Him who calls us to go. Faith is rooted in the knowledge of a Person, and one of the biggest traps we fall into is the belief that if we have faith, God will surely lead us to success in the world.
A life of faith is not a life of one glorious mountaintop experience after another, like soaring on eagles’ wings, but is a life of day— in and day— out consistency; a life of walking without fainting (seeIsaiah 40:31 ). It is not even a question of the holiness of sanctification, but of something which comes much farther down the road. It is a faith that has been tried and proved and has withstood the test. Abraham is not a type or an example of the holiness of sanctification, but a type of the life of faith-a faith, tested and true, built on the true God. "Abraham believed God. . ." ( Romans 4:3 ).--Oswald Chambers
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Very true Jenny, indeed faith is about being led and in the case of Christianity loving the one we are led by. What's harder sometimes - even when that love for Christ is there - is finding contentment in where you've been led. It's tough to think that life doesn't go as easily or with the direction we might hope it to.
I hope that you're finding contentment with the direction you're headed! None of us see where we're going until we're there, and I think that surprise is one of the greatest gifts of all. :)
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