Do you ever feel like you do more bad than good in your life? Would you like to make some changes but don’t know how? I have good news for you!
I have done some really dumb things in my life. I’ve made some decisions that I look back at and wonder how in the world I got so caught up in things and couldn’t see the bigger picture. Oddly enough, I never seemed to learn my lesson the first time, or second time, or third time. I always suffered consequences of various forms, and I always hurt people close to me. Why in the world did I think it was ok to do said dumb things, and more importantly, why was I ok just dealing with consequences, trying to talk myself out of the situations, and continue on, never changing. There was clearly something wrong with me
It really took me hitting absolute rock bottom, before I was able to grasp onto my last straw and say, “God, I need you.” Suddenly I was saying it over and over and over again. Little did I know, that last straw was actually more defined as a tiny last little bit of faith. I learned really quickly that rock bottom wasn’t such a horrible place to be…at that point the only way to go was up.
God picked me up that day. In fact, God picks me up every single day. My last straw changed the course of my life. A new path, new people, new outlook, new mindset. That tiny last little bit of faith, has allowed me to become a complete stranger to the person I was before. Don’t get me wrong, I still face struggles and challenges, but I face them in a different light now.
In the Bible, Matthew 17:20, Jesus tells the disciples, “You don’t have enough faith.” I don’t distinctly recall what the discussion was about and why Jesus was telling them that. I’m better at retaining the significant parts of stories verses the minor details. But Jesus continues on speaking to the disciples and says, “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘move from here to there’, and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.”