We’ve come to the finale of TRUST GOD THROUGH IT ALL series. It is my prayer that your faith and trust in God has been strengthened.
Tag: Proverbs 3:5
He will make your paths straight. The first clause in Part 3 told us to In all your ways acknowledge him. What’s the step in order for you to Trust God Through It All? The answer is in the next clause: He will make your paths straight. On the face of it this looks like an encouraging promise, and it is. It’s a promise that with God’s help as we trust in him we will eventually reach the destination that He has in mind for us. An eternity of joy in his presence. But, it is also a little bit of a warning. It reminds us that our path in life is God’s path, and His way may not be[…]
The first clause in Part 2 told us to Lean not on your own understanding. What’s the step in order for you to Trust God Through It All? The answer is in the next clause: In all your ways acknowledge him. The emphasis in this clause is not so much on acknowledging God, which is pretty much taken for granted, but on the all your ways part. In all your ways acknowledge him. Running right through the lives of many, many people in churches today is a dividing wall between what they see as their Christian lives and what they see as their non-Christian lives. This is the so-called sacred–secular divide. The sacred–secular divide is the assumption that God cares[…]
The first clause in Part 1 told us to Trust in the Lord with all your heart. How can we make sure that we are trusting in God with all our hearts? The following verses show us: Lean not on your own understanding. One problem is that we all think we know better than God. All of us are tempted in the manner of verse 7, do not be wise in your own eyes. We think we know better than God, but the reality is that, like Adam and Eve in the beginning, our wisdom and understanding is weak, crooked and unreliable. Like a worm-riddled walking-stick, if we lean on it, we’re going to fall over. Nonetheless, we persist in[…]
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.
Let’s start with a short story about trust. Remember this story as you go through this series. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard about Blondin before, but it is such a good illustration of trust. Blondin was a 19th century acrobat, famous for his tightrope act 160 feet above Niagara Falls on a rope which was over a thousand feet long. In 1860 a Royal party from Britain saw Blondin cross the tightrope on stilts, and again blindfolded. After that he stopped halfway and cooked and ate an omelet. Next, he wheeled a wheelbarrow from one side to the other, and returned with a sack of potatoes in it. Then Blondin approached the Royal party. He asked the Duke[…]