Easier Said Than Done

"To hold to God is to rely on the fact that He is there for me, and to live in this certainty."

Something that caught my attention as I was reading Barth was the way he talked about faith in relation to God. This is something that has been on my heart for quite a while now and that God has been trying to get me to understand. Philippians 1:6 says "being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ." For some time now, its as if God has been telling me over and over again, "Why the heck would you ever doubt Me?! How the heck could you not believe that what I have for you is so much greater than anything you could ever think up for yourself?!" That is exactly why this passage from Barth caught my eye. Holding to God means living in certainty that He is for me 100%. All too often, things go south for me and I immediately begin to lose sight of what it is God has been doing in my life for so long. And when that happens, I am always brought back to this passage in Philippians. God is at work in my life and is never going to stop just because I don't understand how or why. Barth would go further and say that He is always there for me and intended and deeply desires for me to live my life with that certainty firmly grasped in my heart.