Do you BELIEVE?

" Be not afraid...Only believe" the Savior said in Mark chapter 5. I have thought about faith a lot over my life. How does faith work? What exactly do you have faith in? What happens when you do have faith? If I have faith and nothing obviously changes then did my faith work?

Faith is a believe in God. Not just that he exists, or that he loves me but that God can bring the blessings that I need for my salvation into my life.

This is what faith means to me. Not that what I want will happen. Not that my prayer will be answer the way I hope it will. Not that there won't be pain. Not that it won't take longer than I ever thought it could. Not that it won't mean I have to grow in ways that are literally painful.

Faith means that I know that each day when all my hopes and dreams remain just hopes and dreams that I know that God has a plan for me. That this plan is on track, on time, and in play.

Faith...it is work. To call it faith it has to be hard it has to be a little, or even a lot, painful.