For years I have tried to take a daily multi-vitamin. I would buy some and try to faithfully take them.
But then I would read an article that would say the cheaper vitamins were no good, or that you really should get your vitamins from food. I doubted if the vitamins were doing any good for me at all. Often I would stop taking them, let them sit until I eventually threw them away.
Because I didn't believe they would do me any good, I did not take them.
And therefore they sat unused.
As I've mentioned before, I started taking Taekwondo. After class I noticed my knees would ache a little. Hey, I'm past fifty, what could I expect right? But I wondered if there was something I could add to my diet that would make a change for me.
A friend recommended a type of supplement he takes. He seemed to have done the research, so I gave it a try.
I took the giant pills, one in the morning, one at night. The next night I had class, so I repeated the procedure, one at the morning, one at night.
That evening my knees did not ache, not at all. Not only that, I noticed my muscles did not fatigue as easily in class! The next class, a few nights later I had the same result. In fact my instructor actually commented that my endurance seemed to be getting better.
I haven't missed taking my big pills once since.
Why is that? Why did I take those pills and not the vitamins?
Because seeing the results, I did not doubt, I knew they had a positive impact on my body. With the vitamins I always had doubt because of the other things I read. And that doubt caused me to be half in, and half out. I only half committed to taking them.
The same is true of our walk with the Lord. Either we trust him and obey, or we don't. When we doubt we are not walking in faith. Faith is putting belief into action.
For example, I can believe a chair will hold my weight, I exercise faith in that belief when I sit down on it.
Is there an area in your life where you are allowing doubt to stop you from exercising your faith?
"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." Heb 11:1 (NIV)
