Day 5: Exercise Your Faith

March 20, 2020

What does it mean to "exercise your faith"?  For me right now it means that when I start worrying about my elderly parents or my type 1 diabetic daughter or my son-in-law with asthma getting the Corona virus I have to stop (worrying) and pray. “God please please take care of and watch over these people that I love.” Then I have to get on with my day. When I’m stressed because I’m now “teaching Algebra online” and I have no idea how that looks or how to do it I have to stop and pray. “God please guide me and keep me calm. Please help me figure this out.” (And of course he already gave me a whole support team of daughters to help me with that.) So each time I stop and pray I am “exercising my faith”. When we exercise our bodies they get in better shape and work better and easier. Things that were hard (like walking and climbing stairs) gets easier. We get muscles! I’m looking forward to having way bigger faith muscles when this pandemic is over. So trusting God will come easier. I mean let’s face it. It’s scary to think of running out of toilet paper when you’re quarantined at home with 5 other people. But God tells us not to worry. Remain faithful. Use the smarts He gave you. You’ll find some. He says “I will supply all your needs.” ALL. Health, knowledge and yes, even toilet paper.