“We don’t always live what we profess, but we always live what we believe.”
_Sandra Wilson, Christian Counseling Today Vol 15 no 2
I suspect we can all relate to Sandra Wilson’s quote – we preachers especially. It is one thing to preach what we should believe, but it is an entirely different thing to live what we preach.
But we can.
I call it the “doubt/but” method.
The doubt/but method says, “I have my doubts about this but I am going to live out what I should believe anyway.
It’s the spirit of Job who said, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust him.” (Job 13:15).
It’s model by the three Hebrew boys who, when faced with being burned alive or bowing to and idol said, “Our God will save us, but if he doesn’t, we will not bow anyway.” (Daniel 3)
Truthfully, this is the story of any honest Christian. There’s not a one of us who has not had to walk blind into the future choosing to act on God’s word whether we were certain or not.
Some would call it it “faking it until you make it.”
I call it faithing it until you make it.
The ONE THING for today: Be of good courage. Your doubts are not a reason to give up, they are your reason to faith it until you make it.
“Patience is not a tense waiting for others to come around to our agenda but a willingness to allow God to work in God’s way and in God’s time to bring everyone, ourselves included, to God’s agenda for the situation.”
_M. Robert Mulholland Jr., The Deeper Journey
The ONE THING 