Faith Muscles

 

Photo by Dee Kamp

Faith Muscles

Flipping through a magazine the other day I paused to read an ad for running shoes that promised to help build beautiful muscles, greater self-confidence, stronger willpower and true grit within one to get through even life’s tough times.

“For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth

 to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him…”

2 Chronicles 16:9 NIV

 

But I wanted to rewrite the ad and tell the world the Truth. All we need is faith and hope in God to help build the most beautiful muscles for endurance and confidence―faith muscles!

It’s not too difficult to tie on a pair of running shoes but it takes faith to get you through a marathon and up the high hills. It takes more than good shoes and a fitness routine to face fear, heartbreak and stormy circumstances that come our way every day.

 

The steeper the climb in life, the more grit, the more strength the Lord will provide. Unlike running shoes, God never wears out, He never tires of supplying us the strength we need to get us through the impossible.

We won’t find an ad in a magazine on how to build heavenly faith muscles. But we can honestly say it wasn’t the shoes we wore that build up our hope and endurance, it was the Lord’s strength lifting us up, developing our faith muscles and giving us wings to fly like the eagle.

 

“And He will raise you up on eagle’s wings,

Bear you on the breath of dawn,

Make you to shine like the sun,

And hold you in the palm of His hand”.―African Song

 

"Faith Muscles" by Dee Kamp, Grace Every Morning Ministries