Shakers and Shapers of Faith

Written by Zhey Chua |Posted on May 7, 2008 | Comments

I joined a blogging contest today and on the registration form, I was asked to fill up several fields such as my name, location, blog title, blog URL and then, blog description. I was typing away real fast because I was already getting myself ready to rest in preparation for our mid-weekly prayer meeting so I wasn’t exactly paying attention to what I was doing (half of my brain was making a mental note of things I need to bring to church this evening).

I filled in the blog description page just fine, 250 characters maximum it said, so I just typed in what came to mind. Once done, I read what I had typed in and read it back again.

After His Own Heart chronicles my journey as a young Christian wife, my persecutions and struggles and how these shake and shape my faith in Jesus Christ.

Is that really how I see the trials I go through these days? Shakers and shapers of my own faith? Interesting, there was a time when I would only look at the difficulties as part of life, lessons thrown our way to learn from, morsels of wisdom to keep close in our hearts in case we will need them again someday. Well, perhaps they are all that, too. It’s just that I never saw myself looking at them the way I do now.

A very good blogger-friend, Beck of A Walk Through The Valley posted her own insight on 2 Kings 4:1-7 (her devotional the other night) and incidentally, it was also focused on faith.

It is interesting to know that there are moments in every Christian woman’s life (I am speaking from a woman’s point of view since most of the bloggers I interact with are women, if there are men out there who experience the same, please raise your hands, LOL) when her faith is shaken by unexpected events in her life and instead of drawing nearer to God, we create shells around ourselves and let our faiths wither with the strong tides. That is why often, we come out beaten black and blue.

Amazingly enough though, we may come out of the shaking badly beaten at times but we always bounce back with a stronger and newer shape of faith by learning to cling more to Him and becoming fully dependent on His mercy and grace. Pretty cool, isn’t it?