Faith is trusting God

From today's reading: "In spite of all this, they went on sinning and had no faith in his wonderful works." Psalm 78:32 The first 31 verses of this psalm talk about all the good things that God did bringing the people up out of Egypt; setting them free from slavery, saving them from the Egyptian army, providing water and bread and meat when they hungered and thirsted. And regardless of what the Lord did for them, it was never enough. They always wanted more. That pairs with the reading from Nehemiah 9:26, "Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their backs. . ." The Israelites strayed from their faith in God and couldn't figure out why things went wrong for them. What happens in life and how you approach what happens in life has everything to do with faith; and faith begins with the first 4 commandments (the ones that are abhorrent to so many people in this day and age.) 1) love God with all your heart; 2) don't worship anything else in place of Him; 3) trust God rather than blame him; and 4) spend time with Him. If our relationship with God is straight and true, then everything else in our life will flow naturally out of that relationship. But when we allow outside influences (or even our own attitudes) to impinge and alter our relationship with God, then it will ultimately alter our relationship with the world around us.