Without Faith It Is Impossible

And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek him. Hebrews 11:6

Let's read that again from Young's Literal Translation. I know it might sound a bit Shakespearian, but it's roughly 250 years more recent than Willie S.  Young's Literal Translation first published in 1862, and was updated twice with the final version printed in 1898. He translated Hebrews 11:6 as:

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

Where many translations use the word "must" and give a rendering that someone who wants to come to God "must believe," Robert Young's use of "behoove" covers not only the necessity of "must," but adds a the connotation of it being good and proper as well. And there is a reward in that. 

With that base laid—that those who wish to draw near and come to God must of necessity use faith—let us look at what KatieLyn said a month after she ran away into the night.

"I put my relationship with Joe ahead of my relationship with God, and that was my biggest mistake."  (It is significant that she did not use this reason the night she ran, but that is a post for another day.)

Staying focused on her claim that she needed to give her relationship with God a higher priority, yes, Joe agrees that is a good thing.

What is a necessity, a must-have in one's relationship with God for pleasing Him? Faith.

What was she doing when she ran? Using everything EXCEPT faith! 2 Corinthians 5:7-8, says, "For we walk by faith, not by sight—we are of good courage." She walked by sight, and she had no courage to man-up with faith.

She failed on Hebrews 10:38, "but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him." The "righteous one" is, according to Strong's Lexicon, one who is observing divine laws, i.e. "used of him whose way of thinking, feeling, and acting is wholly conformed to the will of God, and who therefore needs no rectification in the heart or life." Thayer's Greek Lexicon expands on "shrinks back" by explaining it as "those who from timidity hesitate to avow what they believe." When KatieLyn heard from God, she believed that He had chosen Joe for her husband. But due to fearfulness, she hesitated to trust in the Lord.

Faith pleases God; shrinking back in a lack of faith displeases God. So one must wonder—if she was really trying to put her relationship with God first, why wasn't she doing what He'd told her?  

God had revealed His plan for her life, but she did not have the faith to walk it out.