The Last Year or So

Over the last year there has been much that has happened in my life, yet I am here again faced with another time ahead of me where I am Lord willing going out internationally. There have been many trials and obstacles which have stretched me and broke me in many ways, but Yahweh is faithful to that which He calls us to. The further I travel along this road the more I am coming to the realization that it, as Hudson Taylor put it,  "not " have " in your own heart and mind, however you can get it, " faith in God," but simply " hold fast, count upon His faithfulness... Not my faith but God's faithfulness..."(Chapter 19, The Faithfulness of God 1875-1876. AET-43-44) Through everything, though there has been much pain and hurt, the one thing that truly remains is His faithfulness. That has not changed for even my own faith has changed over the last year, yet His faithfulness has not. Everything thus rests on His faithfulness for often my faith can be like that of leaves in the wind being swayed in every way, yet the faithfulness of Yahweh never fails. If I could live my life by this fact and truth it would then open the freedom that flows out when one completely and wholly trusts in Yahweh. I hope and pray that the Lord will break and mold me as clay into what He wills and send me where He desires.

"However, we know that a person isn’t made righteous by the works of the Law but rather through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. We ourselves believed in Christ Jesus so that we could be made righteous by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the Law—because no one will be made righteous by the works of the Law."

"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And the life that I now live in my body, I live by faith, indeed, by the faithfulness of God’s Son, who loved me and gave himself for me."

Galatians 2:16,20