FAITH

I saw this acronym the other day.  I wrote it on a post-it note and stuck it on my desk where I would always see it.

Faith   

Always. 

Intently 

Trusting

Him.    

It is a reminder.  A reminder that saying you have faith isn't enough.  Exploring your faith through the challenges of life as well as the celebrations is work.  To have faith is to trust.  I have faith that I am going to wake up tomorrow morning.   But I have no guarantee.  The trust has to be full of purpose.  I also personally think that you should be intense in your trust of God.  I am intense in my trust.  I love God and know that through everything my young life has gone through, my faith has always been there, intent on the purpose of living a life pleasing to Him and trusting that He knows what He is doing in my life.  I trust Him with that.

Psalm 146

¹Praise the LORD!
  Praise the LORD, O my soul!
 ²I will praise the LORD while I live;
   I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
  ³Do not trust in princes,
    In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.
   ⁴His spirit departs, he returns to the earth;
     In that very day his thoughts perish.
   ⁵How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
     Whose hope is in the LORD his God,
   ⁶Who made heaven and earth,
     The sea and all that is in them;
     Who keeps faith forever;
   ⁷Who executes justice for the oppressed;
     Who gives food to the hungry
     The LORD sets the prisoners free.
    ⁸The LORD opens the eyes of the blind;
     The LORD raises up those who are bowed down;
     The LORD loves the righteous;
    ⁹The LORD protects the strangers;
     He supports the fatherless and the widow,
     But He thwarts the way of the wicked.
   ¹⁰The LORD will reign forever,
      Your God, O Zion, to all generations.
       Praise the LORD!

 Psalm 115
 ¹Not to us, O LORD, not to us,
   But to Your name give glory
   Because of Your lovingkindness, because of Your truth.
  ²Why should the nations say,
   "Where, now, is their God?"
   ³But our God is in the heavens;
    He does whatever He pleases.
   ⁴Their idols are silver and gold,
     The work of man's hands.
    ⁵They have mouths, but they cannot speak;
      They have eyes, but they cannot see;
    ⁶They have ears, but they cannot hear;
      They have noses, but they cannot smell;
    ⁷They have hands, but they cannot feel;
      They have feet, but they cannot walk;
      They cannot make a sound with their throat.
    ⁸Those who make them will become like them,
      Everyone who trusts in them.
    ⁹O Israel, trust in the LORD;
      He is their help and their shield.
    ¹⁰O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD;
       He is their help and their shield.
    ¹¹You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD;
       He is their help and their shield.
    ¹²The LORD has been mindful of us; He will bless us;
       He will bless the house of Israel;
       He will bless the house of Aaron.
    ¹³He will bless those who fear the LORD,
       The small together with the great.
    ¹⁴May the LORD give you increase,
       You and your children.
    ¹⁵May you be blessed of the LORD,
       Maker of heaven and earth.
    ¹⁶The heavens are the heavens of the LORD,
       But the earth He has given to the sons of men.
    ¹⁷The dead do not praise the LORD,
       Nor do any who go down into silence;
    ¹⁸But as for us, we will bless the LORD
       From this time forth and forever.
       Praise the LORD!