How to be Consistent in Your Faith

In my walk with the Lord, I am very inconsistent at times. One moment, I feel so close to God that I find myself talking to Him at least every hour of the day, and get so excited to do my devotions, and the next I dread “wasting” my time reading and talking to Him because I feel too ashamed. I started to feel uneasy about my inconsistency, so I started to ask God why I couldn’t be consistent, and even started to wonder if I really cared if I couldn’t be consistently worshiping Him. After all, worship is connection. I looked back at the times that I’ve thrived and at the times that I’ve slacked. One thing I noticed in all of the ‘sucky’ times was that there were one or more specific sinful areas that I had trouble overcoming. Recently, my relationship with someone was getting worse, and I found myself drifting away from the Lord, because all I could think about was how that person had wronged me, yet couldn’t even acknowledge the way I had been treating them. For me, every time I have struggled, the Lord has opened my eyes and I have been able to grow a lot in my faith, just after coming out of a rough situation. My Bible teacher once said during class, “You can’t grow in your faith while living in sin, through God’s Grace, defeat the sin and pursue growth”(something like that) and it was one of those things that no one really noticed, but it stuck out to me and reminded me of the truth in the statement. Like I said earlier, in all of my rough seasons, there was an area of sin that I was ignoring, because I felt too ashamed to ask the Lord for help. Let’s face it, without our Savior, we’re helpless. Don’t be afraid to ask for the Lord’s help. If it is His will, He will deliver you. There will always be something in your life that you can’t overcome by yourself, so instead of trying to hide it, use it as a way to grow closer to your Father. Let Him make His power evident in that area.

-Jack Hilsher

“I can see the promise

I can see the future

You’re the God of seasons

I’m just in the winter

If all I know of harvest

Is that it’s worth my patience

Then if You’re not done working

God I’m not done waiting

You can see my promise

Even in the winter

Cause You’re the God of greatness

Even in a manger

For all I know of seasons

Is that You take Your time

You could have saved us in a second

Instead You sent a child”

“Seasons” by Hillsong Worship