I Am Learning

I am learning so many things right now. Sometimes I feel like my head and my heart will explode from the information overload, but alas, that is just my over-active imagination at work. The most important thing I am learning right now is to have faith; faith in what God has spoken to me, faith that He is ultimately in control, faith that He will fulfill His promises. Of course there is so much about faith that I have been taught and know with my head, but now I am finding that it is absolutely essential that I live that knowledge out, and that is a whole new learning process. I never knew that it would be a struggle and a fight to believe God and what He said. Having faith in the words and promises that God has spoken to you takes effort, takes you clinging to that faith with everything in you even when it seems like the impossible, takes standing firm no matter what and not wavering in your convictions. It's hard work and the discouragements and temptations to give up abound, but what I am believing for is worth fighting for and so that leaves me with only one choice. I must trust God and exercise my faith no matter what happens, no matter how it looks, no matter how I feel, no matter what anyone says; and that is what I intend to do. Yes, it is a learning process and I am going through it every day, but I know if I keep at it I will eventually learn the lesson and I will be able to see the fruit of my faith. Lord, give me the strength to reach that day.
Side note: I read this today and thought it was really good, so I'm passing it on to you.

IMAGINATION V. INSPIRATION
"The simplicity that is in Christ." 2 Corinthians 11:3
Simplicity is the secret of seeing things clearly. A saint does not think clearly for a long while, but a saint ought to see clearly without any difficulty. You cannot think a spiritual muddle clear, you have to obey it clear. In intellectual matters you can think things out, but in spiritual matters you will think yourself into cotton wool. If there is something upon which God has put His pressure, obey in that matter, bring your imagination into captivity to the obedience of Christ with regard to it and everything will become as clear as daylight. The reasoning capacity comes afterwards, but we never see along that line, we see like children; when we try to be wise we see nothing (Matthew 11:25).
The tiniest thing we allow in our lives that is not under the control of the Holy Spirit is quite sufficient to account for spiritual muddle, and all the thinking we like to spend on it will never make it clear. Spiritual muddle is only made plain by obedience. Immediately we obey, we discern. This is humiliating, because when we are muddled we know the reason is in the temper of our mind. When the natural power of vision is devoted to the Holy Spirit, it becomes the power of perceiving God's will and the whole life is kept in simplicity.