Are You Rebelling?

Without faith it is impossible to please God. —Hebrews 11:6

Several years ago, Revive Our Hearts was going through some major changes. After much prayer, our board went forward with a big step of faith. Yet no sooner had we made the decision than my heart lapsed into fear. For months, I was in a frenzy of terror about this decision. I wasn’t walking in faith.

One day a board member asked, “Have you been resisting and rebelling against this change, and therefore have you been resisting and rebelling against God?”

God used these words to bring me to a place of repentance. Then He began a sweet work of restoring my heart and gave me a sense of peace and joy I hadn’t experienced for months.

Nothing in my circumstances had changed. But I knew that if God had called us to these changes, we could do it. As I exercised faith and surrendered to Him, God gave me a sense of confidence in His leading. He brought me to a place of leaning hard on His everlasting arms and finding His grace to be sufficient for every obstacle.