‘Have we been slandering God by daring to worry when He has said: “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you”?’ –Oswald Chambers, “My Utmost for His Highest”
I was feeling a little bit captivated by my worries today, and so I decided to seek out some counsel first from the Lord, then from my husband, and then from the internet: ha ha, not really the internet, but an electronic version of Oswald Chambers’ devotional. Perusing the list of titles there was one that caught my eye from curiosity rather than from relevance to my situation. “Can a Saint Slander God?,” it read. I was casually reading through it, and I stopped to re-read the quote above.
It struck me that God is not so much concerned with our condition as sinners, ball-droppers, and mistake-makers as He is with the condition of our faith in Him. In His Word. In His trustworthiness. The former condition is the mundane, ordinary, boring to Him. He is not half as surprised as we are when we forget to call someone back or say something nasty or spend too much money at Target; He expects our imperfections. He is asking, “Yes, you messed up, but where is your faith?” This is the question Jesus poses after the disciples wake Him in fear of drowning, and He calms the storm that seemed to be overtaking the boat. Where is your faith? He is redirecting their focus from their situation to Jesus’ condition: faithful, loving, trustworthy. I am suspecting this question also applies to us. Where is my faith? In myself, in my husband, in my church? In my attempts at being perfect? In Jesus as Lord of my life?
I believe that worry might be a check engine light, saying that we are putting too much stress on ourselves, stress this engine can’t hold up under. Stress to perform, to be perfect, to be in control. Where is my faith?
I needed God’s interruption today. 
I hope God interrupts your life at just at the right moment like He does in mine.
