Just Believe

I sit here this morning and I think about the short time I have been saved. And over those past 9 years I have given God all that I have. I have worked hard for HIM, helping to plant a church work and work in several different ministries and do all that I can to help further the Kingdom .
Yet this morning I read a scripture that makes me think real hard about why I did all those things.
John 6:28-29, 28Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
29Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

Is that all. All I have really had to do is just believe, so why do I do all the work, and then struggle with unbelief? I have heard it said that greatest sin in the church today is unbelief, but we are working like madmen to have the next megachurch, or be the next “it” preacher. For what? All that Jesus said we need to do is believe and yet we can’t even do that well. OR least I have struggled with that. It is a humbling thing when Father reveals that you have unbelief. I have honestly never seen that scripture before and yet it puts alot into perspective. If I put as much energy and effort into my relationship with HIM, as I do the work I do, then my belief will grow with my relationship. He does care nearly as much about what I do as much as HE does about my relationship/belief with/in HIM. And I have always known that, I mean I even tell that to other men, and yet when it staring me in the face it is evident that I work more than I believe.

Father, forgive me for my unbelief and for trying to work for YOUR approval and acceptance. Daddy help my unbelief.