The kids are here and all is well. As I wrote yesterday about Faith and it being the substance of things hoped for, I have not been able to get it off my mind. Last night I met with the small step study group to do lesson 6: Action. A couple of the questions the participants were to answer/respond to hit squarely on the topic of having Faith. We are to rely on God’s Power to help us overcome our Hurts, Hangups and Habits. I was asked how is it possible to have Faith in God’s Power? In the narrative one reads ahead of answering the questions it says we are to surrender our willpower so God’s Power can be in control. So what does this look like?

As we pursued the topic it became clearer that to surrender willpower we need to confess to “someone we trust” that we have have been trying on our own and failing. Keeping this secret only supports the failing of our willpower. Yes, in surrendering our willpower to God, we do so with God and then we need to confess this to someone who can hold us accountable to it. This seems to be the substance side of Faith. James 5:16 tells us to confess one to another so we can be healed. When we don’t confess our weakness, we fall back into denial and often relapse. 

Faith as a substance, needs to be followed by what the scripture tells us. Man’s power in the flesh doesn’t match at all what God’s Power will do once we confess to God and then to one another. The humility to do this helps conquer man’s willpower so that the strength in humility is then found. God helps us do this one step at a time, one day at a time.