Is Your Faith Like the Wind?

First I have to say that  I love the traffic I'm receiving here on my blog!  I have no idea who y'all are, though suspect who some of you are, but it is great!  Like I said before, if I could just reach one person with one word of encouragement then my blog has served the purpose I hoped.  Also, I finally figured out yesterday how to get comments emailed to me (duh, I have that enabled on my other blog, you'd think I'd have known what to do) so hopefully I won't be going back through posts to see comments I missed ;)


Last night as I was reading in bed I was listening to the wind.  It got me to thinking how amazing wind is.  It's so much like our faith.  We can't see it but we can see the effects of it.  It's been so windy here, as I know it has throughout much of the country, and I've seen lots of things blowing in the wind.  Garbage, leaves, flags.  I even watched our wooden fence being affected by the wind.  I was surprised to see that our umbrella that goes with our table on our deck was very sturdy for I thought for sure with some of the gusts that it'd snap in half. 

John 3:8

The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."



How much is our faith like that?  We certainly can't see our faith, but we should see the effects of our faith.  We should be leading fruitful lives- not only carrying out the fruits of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, etc) but we should be fruitful in leading others into a relationship with Jesus.  Just like we see bent over trees and such from the wind we should see good things coming from us walking out our faith in Jesus.  I need to daily be reminded to bring forth good fruit in my walk.