Psalm 26:3 English Standard Version (ESV) For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness.

While we might not see God’s perfect will with our physical eyes, our spiritual eyes see faith.

2 Corinthians 5:7 English Standard Version (ESV) for we walk by faith, not by sight.

We learn to walk by faith by taking little steps, not giant leaps.

Matthew 25:21 English Standard Version (ESV) His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Who among us does not want to hear our Lord say “Well done.”? Praise of faith does not come by hearing with our earthly ears, it comes with our spiritual ears of faith.

That first step of walking by faith is going to be timid, unsure but easy to accomplish. Our Lord wants us to succeed. Gone are the days of men like Moses, or Elijah, or Gideon. The office of the prophet has gone away and the faithfulness of God does not abide in the world, He abides in us?

God is faithful, Jesus in God, the Holy Spirit is God, God abides in us and His faithfulness continues to exact His will through us by faith.

One reason that this walk by faith is done in small steps is to build up our trust that we are hearing God. Not just hearing God by faith, but getting it right. If it were not slow we would be at risk of thinking we had actually done something ourselves. That might lead to pride and we know what the Word says about pride.

Proverbs 16:18 English Standard Version (ESV) Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.