When I was a young child, I prayed to God every night for a little sister. I believe full heartedly that He would give me a little sister to be by my side, to laugh with, to cry with, to be my best friend. I’ll never forget the day, years later, I was able to hold my new baby sister in my arms. We all agreed to name her Faith; for I had faith in God he would grant me the joy of a sister. For me, faith is a gargantuan part of my life. My faith in God has given me the passion to live for Him. Oswald Chambers, a British bible teacher and one of my personal favorite devotional writers, interprets his idea of faith that is similar to mine.

“Faithfulness to Jesus means that I must step out even when and where I can’t see anything. But faithfulness to my own ideas means that I first clear the way mentally. Faith, however, is not intellectual understanding; faith is a deliberate commitment to the person of Jesus Christ, even when I can’t see the way ahead.” (Chambers)

Chambers is trying to explain that to have faith, you don’t need to do any background research on what or who you want to put your trust in. Faith is the immediate and fully capacitated trust in someone or something even if you are not completely able to understand its complexity. Even if I don’t know what He has in store for me, I know that God has a perfect plan for my life and I just need to be a willing servant to carry it out.