Grace for Faith

Lately it seems my faith is really being stretched. Many seem to be in this process right now. Recently, I had a visual of my faith. There was what appeared to be a wide rubber strip stretched very taunt. As I gazed at it my first thought was any more stretching and this strip is going to snap. This was how my faith was feeling right about then. In that moment, I asked the Lord for more grace to believe, to trust— for faith and as soon as I asked the strip I was watching could endure more pressure without snapping. Our lives can get like that, we feel stretched to our limit but as we pray and ask God for His grace He enables us to endure the pressure with His strength! Sometimes, okay many times, I may want to just get out of the stretching altogether. But it is when I ask for grace to continue to believe, to trust, to walk in faith that He infuses me with more of His power to endure. When what I have trusted for finally comes, (or even if it hasn’t come yet) I come away from the time of faith stretching with more resilience for faith than when I began.