How is your faith?

I have always felt that my faith has been strong. Any trial I have faced in my life I can honestly say I have never faced alone, I have turned to the Lord for strength and guidance. I am so happy about that. As I sit here and think about faith I realize that I have faith, but my actions are not always proving to me that it is as strong as I have thought it was. With faith we must have action or it will not grow. Alma 32 is about Alma preaching to the poor. He basically tells them that they needed to be poor and have these great afflictions because it was the only way for them to be hunbled so that they could find faith. He says something really important in verse 16, "Therefore, blessed are they who humble themselves without being compelled to be hunble; or rather, in other words, blessed is he that believeth in teh word of God, and is baptized without stubborness of heart, yea, without being brought to know the word, or even compelled to know, before they will believe."
I know that I have always believed without being compelled. It has always felt right and I tend to go with my instincts. But from there I have studied and prayed and I know the truthfulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I know He is the Son of God. Eventhought I know these things I do find that looking back at some of my trials I see they were given to me to become humble, to clear my vision so that I could see God's plan for me. I guess growing in faith is a continual process...duh! I think back to when I decided to go on a mission. My mind was totally closed off to going on a mission, I really didn't feel like that was the plan for me. I was at college and I had gone through a really rough year, it brought me to my knees often, I ran a lot to think about why things were so hard and one day it hit me that God's plan for me was that I needed to go and serve a mission for the church. It took an entire year to get me humble to see this plan and have the humility to go do it without question...and it was life changing and the one of the greatest blessings of my life. I am so glad my was strong enough to actually listen and that my family supported me so that I could serve the Lord in that capacity.

Here are some good questions to ask yourself for reflection:
What experiences have you had to build your faith? What were the real eye openers? How does this help you now to recognize when they Lord is trying to tell you something. Are you listening to Him now...really listening? Are you truly humble and ready to do His will?