This 12-Word Sentence Gives Me Peace When Nothing is Working
Someone once said, “I manage my circumstances, but I don’t build my faith on them.” And when I heard that, it felt like someone handed me a tool I didn’t know I needed.
Because the truth is, there are ACTUAL circumstances to manage. There’s paperwork to file. Budgets to adjust. Flights to book. Gear to sell. People to love. Offense to release. There are moments I want to scream, moments I feel completely outmatched, and moments where the progress is so slow I can’t tell if I’m still moving.
But I’ve learned: I can manage those circumstances without letting them shape my theology. When I was promised a harvest, but only see weeds, I can keep pulling weeds without using them to forecast the harvest.When I was promised a harvest, but only see weeds
That’s the tension so many of us find ourselves in when we’re walking by faith. We have a promise, but not the full picture. And in that gap — between what God said and what we currently see — it’s easy to slip into one of two errors:
1. Denial — Pretending there are no weeds, no problems, no resistance. Just speak faith louder and everything disappears, right?
2. Despair — Looking at the weeds and deciding that the whole future will be just more of the same.
But faith does neither.
Faith says, “Yep, there are weeds. And yep, I’m gonna pull them …AND they don’t define the future.”
So I manage what’s mine to manage. I steward the responsibilities in front of me. I show up in the natural. I pull the weeds I can see.
But I don’t build my faith from the presence of weeds — or the lack of them.
I build it on God’s character. I build it on His Word. I build it on how He’s shown up in my life again and again… not always in the way I expected, but always in the way I needed.
The presence of friction doesn’t mean the promise is off course. The pressure doesn’t cancel the calling. And delay is not denial.
So if you’ve said yes to something scary, something uncertain, something you can’t quite pull off on your own… don’t let your current view shake your belief in the destination.
Faith wasn’t meant to be a reaction to smooth sailing. It was made for moments like this — when you don’t see the way forward, but you still remember who called you.
“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.”
— Hebrews 10:23
And hey… if you made it all the way through this post and found yourself thinking, “Man, this really should be easier for them,” — there’s a chance the Holy Spirit’s poking you.
In just a few weeks, Whitt and I will officially begin raising monthly support for this mission. We’re each believing for $3,000/month in a combined effort from our support teams. If you feel like your ‘yes’ might be part of sending our yes — whether through finances, connections, or something creative — we’d love to hear from you.
Shoot me an email at jake@rallypointnetwork.org and let’s see what God’s up to.
Thanks for walking this journey with us.
