In the parable of the seed, one of the seeds that doesn’t make it is the worry seed.  It gets choked by worries and faith begins to die.  Because faith and worry do not go together.

This last month I’ve been in a place of great stress.   I feel my faith being dampened.  And last night I just admitted it to myself–I don’t have faith that God will protect and provide.  There’s reasons I struggle with this that I won’t go into.  But they are real.  Yet if I let worry beat out faith, that faith can die.  Not because I don’t believe God.  But rather because I’m not trusting Him.

It’s a sobering reality.  How do I let faith take over again?  My current situation slaps me hard in the face every single day.  I have to feed faith though.  Believe that He is good, and that He has good things in mind.  It won’t happen without great intentionality.  Kind of like those old tractors I used to grow up driving where it took a lot of arm strength and a zillion turns to redirect the tractor.  But it is necessary.