Now Faith

Things don't always go as planned. Today I had scheduled an appointment to meet with a potential business partner. I had spent quite a bit of time preparing for this meeting. I had reviewed my to-do list, perfected my presentation, and I was eager to settle the deal. To put it mildly, I was eager to accomplish the task that I had planned. However, things fell through. I arrived at my destination a few minutes early, and there was no sign of the person that I was supposed to meet. This did not deter nor discourage me because I took it as a gift of extra time to be fully prepared to meet my goal. After about ten minutes, I decided to call to see if the person was either running late or if some mishap had prevented her from attending at all. Sure enough, my client had run into an emergency the day before which threw off her course for today. Her plans and my plans had been interrupted by life.



Immediately, I offered to try to accommodate or reschedule our meeting. I was calm, and I was genuine. After a brief discussion, I realized that we would not be meeting this week and the truth is we may not be able to follow through with what I had planned. But it is okay. I am not upset, nor am I angry or anxious. I could have easily been offended because the lady that I was meeting had not thought to call and cancel our meeting. I could have grumbled and complained because I had seemingly wasted my time and gas. I could have been disappointed because sealing this deal would have made a difference in my life. None of those reactions would have been right because neither of them would have changed the situation and probably would have severed the ties between the client and me. Instead I choose to walk in faith. I choose to believe that God has another plan for us and when it is His will He will work it out.



That is why I was even-tempered and thankful. I began to thank God for His infinite wisdom and grace. I thanked Him for loving both of us and not allowing us to have our own way which may have interfered with His plans for us. I praise God for revealing His Divine will in our lives. The truth is that I trust God. He is faithful, and He never fails. When we make plans and they fall through, Jesus is there to redirect our paths to the course that He has set.



Hebrews 11 says "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." It is faith that creates the things that we hope for. Our faith will produce things that we cannot see at first. We are required to have now faith. That means that we can't wait until we see what God is doing or until we figure out that we really haven't missed out. No! We must have faith right now, when we don't know all the answers, when we can't see what will happen next, when we don't know why things didn't work out. We must trust that God knows everything all the time. So when He doesn't permit life to go the way we plan, we must let our faith rise above the circumstances of the moment and believe that He will work it out if we don't get faint-hearted and give up.



Take some time today to see places and people that did not work out the way that you thought they would, and pump your faith muscles by believing that you did not lose out. Know that God has a bigger plan, a better timing, and a beautiful life set for you. Walk in victory. Possess the God kind of faith that says, "Not my will, but Lord your will be done."