Build your Faith. Start Small

Are you stuck in your Christian life? People talk about Bible study in your church, but you're not an academic. Start small, you can read a Psalm and half a chapter of Mark, Luke or John every morning or evening.

It is not important to be a trained theologian. What matters is that you gain insight from God.

But how does this wisdom come?

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Mt 7:7–8 NIV

It is better to read a little with childlike faith and feel God's heart than to read many theological books without knowing God's heartbeat.

Some pray long prayers. They speak to God, but do not listen in their hearts to hear God's answer.

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. Jn 10:27 NIV

God wants to encourage and guide you, and sometimes correct you with love. He speaks in the Bible when you seek God's guidance in your Bible reading, but not only directly through Bible texts.

Do you know any poems or worship songs? If a song touches your heart, you can worship God in that song and He can speak to you through it as well.

I was once in a blessed church service. The preacher prayed for me and I felt the loving presence of God. Then an old poem came to my mind, a poem by Heinrich Heine. Here is a rough translation.

Quiet stealing through my mind,
sweetly ringing spring song,
ring out a little spring tune,
ring out little song!

Ring out to the house,
where the flowers are blooming:
If you see a rose
tell them I send my love.

A few years later, Jesus called me to travel to Germany. After arriving in Frankfurt, I spent a few days as a house guest in a beautiful village in the Taunus Mountains.

In the morning, after a delicious breakfast, I went out into the garden. It was 25 December and spring was still a long way off. I looked around the garden until I saw a plant. There before my eyes was a rose.

God speaks through signs and wonders, but signs and wonders are not always spectacular. If your heart, eyes and ears are open to God, you will also experience signs and wonders.

Do you want to get to know God? Start small.