The sweetest thing

I attended the sweetest little wedding this weekend.
It was the no stress kind.
A small family wedding for my sister.
12 people.
1 couple.

The point, the focus of it was two people making a promise before God to spend their lives together loving each other.

The setting was simple yet had a feeling of stablility.

A church made from reclaimed lumber (from another church) and new construction.

A great symbol of our lives in Christ- reclaimed lives built on new construction.

God wants to do miracles of that kind in our lives but we don't want to give him a chance.

Submit to God, obey Him, read His word, pray daily, trust in unseen things- I'm too busy for that.

Yeah, to busy squandering your life, wasting your treasures and chasing lies.

I am struggling this week watching people do this. At times watching myself do this.
oh, me of little faith.

James 1
² Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, ³ because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. ⁴ Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. ⁵ If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. ⁶ But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. ⁷ That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. ⁸ Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.

Perseverance
doggedness, steadfastness. Perseverance, persistence, tenacity, pertinacity  imply resolute and unyielding holding on in following a course of action. Perseverance  commonly suggests activity maintained in spite of difficulties or steadfast and long-continued application

Perseverance: exactly what is missing in most of our lives.
Exactly what is missing in Churches.

From what this verse says you cannot have spiritual maturity with out perseverance.

You cannot understand what Paul or Peter understood. With out it, you will feel like the things they write sounds crazy and you will question God every step of the way.

What is the key here?
By holding out and giving Him all that you are, you are saying that all your chips are on the bet that He is all He says He is.

By holding on and submitting, we give God the chance to prove He is all He says He is. When we see, hear, feel and finally know He is good through what He does, then our lack becomes a non-issue.