TRUST GOD THROUGH IT ALL part 1

Trust in the Lord with all your heart. The call on the Christian is to have the sort of trust that makes us prepared to put our entire lives into God’s hands. Look at Proverbs, verse 5 of chapter 3, Trust in the Lord with all your heart.

Simply believing in God is no good to us. We are to have faith, and trust is the practical outworking of faith.  Wholly and securely rely upon God’s wisdom, power and goodness and upon his providence and promises, for direction and help in all thine affairs and dangers.  Faith in God sometimes seems like a nebulous, airy-fairy concept, doesn’t it? It’s hard to pin down exactly what it means; it’s hard to know whether we really have “faith”.

We can understand trust, though, can’t we? After all we find ourselves having to trust people every day. We trust whoever built our house that it’s not going to fall in on our heads. We trust the bank with our money EVEN when our account is in the negative.  Help me Jesus! We trust whoever designed our DVR that when we set the timer it will record the program we wanted.  We exercise trust all the time, quite unthinkingly. We know what it means. Trust is the practical outworking of faith: it is when we trust God that we show that our faith in Him is real.

The call here is not to a piecemeal trust in God. No, it’s to a complete trust in God: trusting him with our whole lives. We are not to pick and choose—OK, Lord, I will trust you with my marriage, but not with my career—, we are to trust him with our whole hearts and put our whole lives in his hands.

The Christian, who has put his or her faith in God has to get into that wheelbarrow when God challenges us. We are to trust in the Lord with all our hearts.

Next week, we’ll continue the series with Lean not unto your understanding. Let me know down in the comments your thoughts.

Until next Tuesday…