Are Your Ready to Trust God?
Good Morning Friends,
There are all sorts of things that are not right in this world. Still Jesus wants us to inherit the kingdom and so is ready to catch us when we fall, ready to hug us into eternity when we jump into His arms, ready to comfort us in the storm and ready to embrace us so close when we are tested, that nothing, absolutely nothing, can get between us and His love. This divine love is so powerful, this love so pregnant that it births in us His Holy Spirit. This love can permeate our life, even the life of a penitent thief. And just as Jesus conquered creation and made it new in us, just as Jesus concurred death and sin, so too do we conquer with the Holy Spirit, laboring in the work He has given us until His return. Jesus lived and died placing His life in the hands of the Father. Like Jesus, we too need to choose life on the Father’s terms… being as a child looking up into the face of our Heavenly Father, learning the work He would have us do, putting our hands in His as we walk with Him into paradise… Are Your Ready to Trust God?
Scripture:
8Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning, for in you I put my trust. Teach me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
Psalm 143:8 (NRSV)
3My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments; 2for length of days and years of life and abundant welfare they will give you.3 Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them round your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.4 So you will find favour and good repute in the sight of God and of people. 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. 6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Proverbs 3:1-6 (NRSV)
43He replied, ‘Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.’
Luke 23:43 (NRSV)
37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:37-39 (NRSV)Top of FormBottom of Form
13Elijah said to her, ‘Do not be afraid; go and do as you have said; but first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterwards make something for yourself and your son. 14For thus says the Lord the God of Israel: The jar of meal will not be emptied and the jug of oil will not fail until the day that the Lord sends rain on the earth.’ 15She went and did as Elijah said, so that she as well as he and her household ate for many days. 16The jar of meal was not emptied, neither did the jug of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by Elijah.
1 Kings 17:13-16 (NRSV)
Message: Get out your Bible and read it. There is a promise there for you too. It is the promise of a bottle of oil that won’t dry up, a jar of flour that won’t run out. It is promise that guides us back to Christ who is our central treasure. Let’s be honest, too often we do not take this principle of trusting to heart. But we reject it at our own peril. We assume we know it all, that the Father does not know best. We try and fail at buying happiness. Forcing outcomes. We steal from ourselves the abundant life, we fail to experience God the provider. You see, there is a fundamental connection between how we trust and our spiritual lives. Have you ever wondered why the phrase “In God We Trust” appears on money and why so many of us would rather trust in money than God? Do you really trust God? Today’s devotional is about a trust so deep that it affects us in all things…even things involving money. So trust in times of adversity and trust times of plenty and trust in God Himself not just His instruments of provision. Friends there really is overwhelming evidence that you can trust God. Trust is a key to victorious living… to abundant living. We need to trust His commandments and obey. God has a way of blessing those who trust in Him with their health, wealth and happiness. But sometimes tragedies happen. Life gets out of control. Sometimes life is beyond us and uncertain. But it is never beyond God. Learn that there is a treasure in trusting in His love. Be surprised by the joy of His severe mercy. Trust in the treasure of His provision, His knowledge, His security… Trust in His grace and peace, knowing that in all things that matter, God is in control. Friends, when we trust in the God of all creation, we trust in a Lord that lives and we trust in a love that lasts and trust in a purposeful labor that lingers. In so doing we become more than conquerors. Trust Him and have faith in the one who loves you.
Pray we trust in the Lord’s plan.
Pray that we learn to trust in the presence, promise and person of Jesus. Pray that we would trust Him to provide what we need when we need it. Pray we rejoice in our weakness for it may be our path to depending on and trusting God. Pray for the kind of strength that comes from trust in the Lord.
Blessings,
John Lawson
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