Nourish The Seed of Faith

Nourish Your Faith

So often we forget that faith takes nourishment in the same way that a seed needs water, sun and soil. It takes faith that a seed will grow into a tree and produce good fruit. But we cannot expect a seed to grow and produce good fruit if we do not nourish it, prune it, and pull out the weeds. We have to do our part. We need to nourish our faith.

Shed The Negative & Pay Attention

How often do we forget to nourish our faith with positive influences, prune out the excess in our lives, and weed ourselves from the doubt that pulls us down? In fact, so often many of us do the opposite. 

Whenever I am stressed, struggle with a situation or have a bad day, I find myself counting and listing off every little stress, struggle or problem in my life, almost as if no one could achieve so great a feat as having as many problems as me. Admit it, we all tend to do it. It is only human that when we are stressed our minds naturally gravitate to everything else that is stressing us out.

There are lots of valid excuses, exceptions, and problems in our lives to negate our faith. However, sometimes our problem is that we simply do not pay enough attention and place enough focus on the right things. We can't expect to grow an apple tree if we plant seeds for a lemon tree. Similarly, you wouldn't spray poison on a seed or rip it out because you were unsure that it would grow. So, why would spray poison on your faith or rip it out of your heart because of a fear that it will not work? 

Shed the negative and pay attention.

Believe It Can Work

Paul from the New Testament taught, "...faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1)."

Some people can honestly say, "I tried everything and nothing came of it." 

However, failure--or what may seem like failure--is only a failure if we learn nothing from it. Faith is always a success if we learn and grow from it. 

Likewise, faith is not truly faith if we try, but do not believe that it can actually work. You need both belief and effort. Believe it can work.

Keep Trying

No real success ever came without effort. God will bless you for your continued efforts. So don't give up.

I started this week by talking about building faith. So let me close this week by advocating that if we want to build faith and find the benefits of it in our lives, we must:

1. Nourish our faith
2. Shed the negative and pay attention
3. Believe that it can actually work
4. Keep trying

Want to read more about building and nourishing faith? Read: Alma 32: 27-43 & Hebrews 11

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