Frazzled Faith

I read this on the Christians United for Israel  email this morning and I thought about those struggling with their first year of recovery from life controlling issues and addictions. Sometimes it feels like we take one step forward, only to fall two behind.  Thankfully, if we can let go of our feelings, not be controlled by emotion, but by deliberate faith in the God who gave living waters out of the rock; parted the Red Sea; gave manna from heaven; and is one day at a time showing me His great mercy and love; then we are victorious. He is among us, proving it by His miracles of love toward us.

"Frazzled Faith?

“…is the Lord among us or not?” Exodus 17:7

 I have often considered the conflict the Hebrew people must have experienced as they started their journey to the Promised Land. One day they are living in Egypt, then literally overnight, they are thrust into the Wilderness where they became homeless and radically dependent on the supernatural provision and protection of Moses’ God - Whom they were still getting to know for themselves. Their world had been turned upside down! From high-highs to low-lows, God set them all on a ‘relational-crash-course’ so that they would learn to rely on Him.

Stepping into Exodus 17, the Hebrew people are now faced with another opportunity to trust in God as Provider. Confronted with a bone-dry desert, without water for their people or animals, the crisis proved to be more than their reliance on God could handle, and their faith frazzled. As their fear peaked, the people mobbed Moses screaming, “…is the Lord among us or not?” Of course, you know the rest of the story, how God stepped in and used a “dead rock” to produce abundant amounts of “living water” in the midst of a “dry land” – proving that He knows how to take care of His own!

Well, allow me to remind you that the same God Who broke Egypt’s death-grip, carved a path through the Red Sea, supplied His people with daily manna and turned a desert-rock into Niagara Falls is still caring for His people! Regardless of your famine, fear or frazzled-faith, know that your God is here, He does care and He will provide!"

by Scott Thomas

CUFI – Florida State Director

Free Life Chapel, Lakeland, Florida

Frazzled Faith?