Living our faith

God has no limits when it comes to his goodness. He overflows with blessings even without us deserving it, he overflows our cups without sparing. We do not even imagine in the despair of life how kindly God can surprise us in the moments when we cry out for his presence and his giant hand on our lives. The Christian heart is comforted by knowing that he is blessed and loved by God. The great David once said that human beings do not have a big enough heart to receive the countless blessings that God is able to provide.

Over the years and the hustle and bustle of daily Christian exercise, we forget the price our Lord had to pay for our salvation. The daily provision, the wounds healed, the marriage restored, the prodigal son who returned repentant, the comfort and inexplicable peace in the face of the irreparable loss of a loved one; with everything; Still, we should rejoice in the God who predestined us from before the foundation of the world. Paul's letter to the Philippians is certainly a hymn to joy from the perspective of someone who suffered the shame of prison, the prayer of the prophet Habakkuk is a hymn to faith and hope in God no matter what comes, what life and circumstances bring us.

Many times we wonder why the natural man who is an enemy of God, prospers, has a good home, lives a life of luxury and excess, living uncontrollably without caring for anything more than his own cisterns. Or the wicked who squander evil in the world, war makers who will not kill poverty, but the poor. God is omniscient. He knows everything, He does not imagine anything and above all he is fair and knows the heart of each one. But the righteous will live by faith (Rom 1:17).

The prayer of the prophet Habakkuk is a song of hope for the just who walk by faith, for the one who lives, trusting in divine justice and in the claims of redemption beyond the suffering and traps that life puts on us. God has no limits when it comes to his goodness.

The world we live in and preach to seems to be going under. Sometimes he seems hungry for God, other times he aims to ignore him. The people of God, however, seem increasingly willing to write new chapters in the book of faith. But this is lacking when we see that the fig tree has not yet sprung up, that there are no sheep in the fold, that oil is scarce and the fields do not bear fruit or food. And then we cry out to the God of promises and mercies.

Nobody has said that living by faith is easy, that waiting on the Lord is comfortable, that feeding ourselves with patience and hope alone brings tranquility and peace to the soul. But God has said that even when our spirits often break down and we drag our feet because of our lack of faith, He remains by our side suffering the test with us, reminding us that He has overcome the world, that nothing and no one will separate us from His love and that He is the only reason that breathes life into our lives.

Once I lost all hope. My sinful nature was dragging me to a premeditated end, but in search of comfort, an angel sent from heaven spoke to me of the Lord and invited me to tear down the Baals in my life and accept the gift of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. Years have passed since then and I have seen many fig trees that have not budded, cows that were lost from the stables and vines that dried up without fruit, but the Lord has strengthened me and I have been able to multiply my hopes and rejoice in Him. will our help come? From the grace of God that comes from faith in his incomparable promises!

God bless you!