How do we stay strong in faith when everything is screaming at us to walk away?

How do we stay strong in faith when everything is screaming at us to walk away?

I think this is a question everyone has asked themselves at least once in their life. I know that lately this question has become more and more frequent for me. Its a question which could have so many different answers. So many times I have asked this question. And when Satan chucks us excuse after excruciating excuse to walk away, how do we stay strong?

When the world is pulling you away, when your prayers stay unanswered, when everything you thought you knew about God is put to the test and everything inside of you is telling you to give up; how do you stay firm in your faith?

I wish I could say that I stood my ground when the going got tough. That I sought refuge from the Father and stood firm in faith when I needed to most. But like a lot of people I can't say that. I took a look at this world and thought "how can such a loving God let all this happen?"

I don't think God ever intended to let the world get this way. It comes with the whole free choice deal. We need faith to make it work. If we have faith then we will do what God intended for us to do, meaning it'll turn out just fine and dandy in the end even though the hard slog is, well, extremely hard! If we don't have faith we won't do what God intended for us to do. The free will God gave us isn't used wisely and all of a sudden the whole world is falling down around us. Sin enters our lives and it effects those who stick by us. So we find ourselves asking the question "How do we stay strong in faith when everything is screaming at us to walk away".

Well, if you had sufficient enough faith in the first place I don't think we would be asking this question. But of course, we are only human and we struggle to completely surrender everything to something we cannot physically see. But I think this quote sums it all up: Faith isn't faith until its all your holding onto.