One of the greatest stories I heard as a kid was the story of a man called Abraham. This story was so great we even sang a song about him in Sunday School which had use spinning and moving like crazy people (well, we were Pentecostal after all!).

This man’s story has inspired so many people to keep going when it seems like a situation was impossible. Let me very quickly explain. This man was promised by God that he would be blessed and his offspring would bless and populate the whole earth. The only problem was that he and his wife were unable to have kids. Abraham received this promise from God at age 70 and no he wasn’t a sugar daddy, his wife was in the same age bracket. However, Abraham believed in God, had a few mishaps, then at an age approaching 100 had his first child! Pretty crazy and remarkable!

Anyhow, I see a pattern in his life that matches mine. Not long after receiving this promise from God and believing that God would bless them and protect them they experienced a famine. This resulted in Abraham moving his family temporarily to Egypt so they would survive. However, he was scared when he went to Egypt because his wife was a bit of a looker and he realized the Kings of Egypt would take a liking to her. So he pretended to be her sister instead of her husband just in case they tried to eliminate him from the picture so the Egyptian men could have a clear run at his beautiful wife.

Now why would a guy who believed that God would give him a child even though his wife was barren and post menopausal now fear something that may not even happen and limit the God that he served. After stepping out in faith to trust God, he immediately forgot that God would protect him and his family.

I have found myself do this so often. You trust God and believe God so much, but then a situation comes along that needs hardly any faith to get through, yet you fear that situation more than any other. Why? I think it is the small faith fear! Some situations seem so small that we think we can get through them on our own. We don’t need God because we can handle them ourselves, so we do. However, these situations nearly always end up breaking or destroying us.

I think it is sometimes easy to trust in God for the big things. We can’t attain them, so we have to trust in God. However, real mountain moving faith is found when one trusts in the almighty God for the smallest of things. It is these people who have found the secret of not leaning on their own understanding but acknowledging and leaning on God in all their ways and all through all their days.

My desire is that I become a person who is not afraid to step out and trust God fully in the small things of this life!