Around the Walls of Doane: Day 5

Today God seemed to be communicating to me about belief. My heart was burdened with the fact that we so often know things but stop at that knowledge. The simple fact is that faith is a core aspect to our salvation along with God’s infinite grace and Christ’s life, death, and resurrection. If we were to merely know about God’s grace and Christ’s sacrifice for our sins but did not believe it, where would that leave us. Why then, was the question that came to my mind, do we hesitate to believe as we live out our Christian lives? What makes us pray things simply because we know that is what we should be praying, but not really believing God will come through?

This challenging thought coupled with the fact that my heart was becoming more burdened for Doane College led me to resonate with D.L. Moody when he stated:

“It is a delusion of the devil to think that we cannot pray; we can if we really want anything. It is not the most beautiful or eloquent language that brings down the answer, it is the cry that goes out of a burdened heart. It is the desire, the wish of the heart, that God delights to answer. An arrow if it be drawn up but a little way, goes not far, but if it be pulled up to the head, flies swiftly and pierces deep. Thus prayer if it be only dribbled forth from careless lips, falls at our spirit. Fervency of spirit is that which availeth most.”

Tonight we started our walk by asking God to align our hearts to His. We individually asked the Lord to search our hearts and make known to us anything that may be hindering our belief. The Spirit was moving, and I look forward to seeing what God’s will is for the campus and the role we as believers will play in that. One thing I realized was, I truly do believe that God is going to do something great...my struggle is trying to avoid defining great by my own expectations. When our hearts are aligned to His, asking for the campus in His name, we will understand His amazing will.

Onto day six!

-terah