Yesterday,
I found myself sighing. I let out one of
those tired, depressed and faithless sighs that was long and overly
dramatic. Jan heard my sigh and wisely said,
“Why don’t you follow up that sigh with an act of worship?” I had been lovingly had. Jan’s words came with a smile that has been
developed in 41 years of married life when she needs to address her less than perfect
man.

When
Jan spoke those words of tender wisdom a light went on in my heart.  Why not? Why not follow a faithless
expression with an act of worship?  Like
other spiritual exercises an act of faith will displace the territory held by
an act of faithlessness and reassign its expression to the purposes of God.

Most of
our journey of faith is about renewing the way we think to such a degree that
we begin to think differently about all aspects of life, even how we express a
negative emotion.  Today, when you find
yourself expressing a lack of faith redirect that negative expression and cause
it to become an act of worship.  Pretty
soon the sighs will be replaced with praise and the situation that caused the
sigh in the first place will have lost its power to direct your response to
life.