When Faith Feels Ridiculous
- ~Kimberly Oden
- Aug 1
- 2 min read
“Faith can feel ridiculous… until it starts to rain.”
I’ve lived this line more than once. Just this week, our family lost a dear friend—Ms. Gail—after a long, hope-filled battle with cancer. We prayed with fervency and faith for her healing… and yet, for reasons we may never understand this side of Heaven, Jesus welcomed her home on Monday…
Moments like these can shake your soul. They can tempt you to question whether your prayers mattered—whether your faith was misplaced. But today I remembered Noah.
He built an ark in the middle of a dry region, where it had never rained. He trusted the Word God had spoken, letting every swing of the hammer pierce the air, not for applause or understanding—but in agreement with a promise no one else could see. He built by faith… until the rain came.
Sometimes God asks us to do the same:
To pray for something.
To build something.
To believe for something—without ever seeing the outcome we imagined.
But here’s what we can count on:
“Even if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.” – 2 Timothy 2:13
And…
“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.” – Hebrews 10:23
So friend, don’t let the delay make you doubt.
Don’t let what you see or what you don’t see yet cause you to lay down your faith.
The rain will come.
We just might not see the full spectrum of it until we get to the other side of Heaven. And when we do, I believe we’ll see how every prayer mattered, how every moment was seen, every tear was collected —and how faithful ones like Ms. Gail helped us keep believing.🤍
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