Trust. Only five letters, but a huge word. We trust when we sit down the chair will hold us. We trust that the sun will rise in the morning. Those are easy. Trusting God for salvation, truly trusting takes it a giant step farther. Especially when you're like me and lean towards living on a performance based scale. We just talked about this in our Ladies Bible study yesterday. How we "know" that we are saved by grace, and loved by God, yet feel further from Him when we fail. Or think somehow when we don't live up to a certain standard He will just toss us away. Neither of these is true. His love never changes. His salvation never fails. Then there's trusting God to get us through life--the good, the bad and the ugly. Easier said than done. Especially, when we don't want to let God be God and we want to tell Him how to fix us, fix our circumstances or fix the people in our lives. LOL I'm really good at this one. Let's see where my Mom went with this.
Zephaniah 3:12 Those who are left will be the lowly and humble, for it is they who trust in the name of the Lord.
To trust; to hope; to make someone a refuge.
Psalm 118:8 It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in people.
Isaiah 26:3-4 You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you! 4 Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord God is the eternal Rock.
Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. 6 Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.
Psalm 23:1-6 The Lord is my shepherd; I have all that I need. 2 He lets me rest in green meadows; He leads me beside peaceful streams. 3 He renews my strength. He guides me along right paths, bringing honor to His name. 4 Even when I walk through the darkest valley, I will not be afraid, for You are close beside me. Your rod and your staff protect and comfort me. 5 You prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies. You honor me by anointing my head with oil. My cup overflows with blessings. 6 Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will live in the house of the Lord forever.
The very area where we are most tempted to distrust God is the very place He has chosen to help you.
From me.
It's clear that Mom knew where to go and Who to rely on. She went to Scripture and she relied on God. And I'm thinking with me as her daughter she probably needed to quite often. LOL. I was reading a light novel this week and the main character spoke about how she let the words of Scripture wash over her, how she "absorbed them" into her heart as she prayed them and over them to the Lord. I think that doing this, meditating for a few moments and praying over what we've read is a great way to develop more trust. It becomes more about what's in our hearts than in our heads. Also, as I listened to a radio teacher yesterday, he said that instead of just reading our Scripture or devotions in the morning, to take a few extra minutes and mull over them when we are done and sit quietly with them. This doesn't have to take a lot of extra time, just enough to let the Holy Spirit stir things into our hearts.
This is where I think I've failed in practice and as a result have shorted myself in growing in Christ. I'm a very task oriented person and love the little check list in my head to get it's little check marks. But those few extra minutes of breathing in the Lord's Words, letting them settle into us through prayer and focus will have huge impact. Taking the time to let the Lord do His work in us will let these Scriptures grow our trust and faith. I believe that it will help make us alert to God' working in our day, and our circumstances. It will also develop our trust as more of Him is revealed to us.
Find your Scriptures to stand on. The ones that will build your trust and make our Lord and Savior more real to your heart, bring you closer to Him.
Lord, thank You for Your Word. Thank You for Who You are. Help us to trust You in every moment of our day. Let us develop habits that develop the habit of trusting You. In the name of our faithful Savior, Jesus. Amen.
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