Do
You Really Trust Jesus?
2/16/13
Do
you really trust in Jesus?
Do
you really trust in what His Word says?
Do
you really trust that He will never leave you?
Do
you really trust that He will provide for your every need?
Do
you really trust that He is the one that knows the plans for your life?
What is trust anyways?
Trust
can be defined many ways, but we will narrow it down to these two.
1.
Confident expectation; hope
2.
Acceptance of the truth of a statement without evidence or investigation
How often do we as Christians question
His Word?
In 2
Timothy 3:16, Paul wrote that all scripture is God breathed.
If scripture is God breathed then why do
we question the truth and existence of it?
Do
we really believe that Adam and Eve were the first to sin?
Do we
really believe that Noah built the Ark and saved creation?
Do
we really believe that Jesus fed over 5,000 people with just a few loaves of
bread and fish?
Do
we really believe that Jesus walked on water?
We
believe these things because we believe in the Scripture.
We
trust that the truth in them is from the Lord.
We know not because each of us has gone
and investigated life way back then, but because we trust in the truth of His
Word.
Several
times in the last week the Parable of
the Sower has been revealed to me.
The
parable is in Mark 4, you can turn there if you like, but I am going to give
you the Brandi’s Standard Version of the story.
Jesus
told the story of a farmer that goes into a field to plant seeds.
He
scatters the seeds throughout the land.
Some of them land on rocks and are eaten
by the birds.
Some of them land on
the top of the soil and sprout up very fast, but soon wither away because the
roots are not deep.
Some of them were
planted in the soil and were able to grow deep into the ground and multiply
thirty plus times.
This
parable is not even about the farmer or the plants, but about the correlation
that it has to us taking in God’s Word.
Some of us read the Word and let it go
in one ear and out the other.
Some of us read the
Word and recognize what it says, but never apply it to our lives.
Some of us read the
Word and have it deeply rooted in our hearts.
Where do you stand in trusting God’s
Word?
There’s so much more to trusting not only the truth of
the Bible, but trusting in the Lord’s promises for us.
Do
we really trust Him with all that we have and all that we are?
I will be the first to admit that I fail
at trusting God with everything.
I think that my plans for my future are
better than His plans, but then He asks me to trust Him. Proverbs 3:5-6
I
have no idea what I am doing after the race. Literally the world seems to be at
my fingertips with the options that I have. I don’t know what will happen,
where I will go, or what I will do, but I do know that I can trust in Him to lead
the way.
I don’t trust that He
will provide for all of my needs. Philippians 4:19
During
month 5 of my race, I knew that the money in my bank account would not last me
until the end. Month 6 the Lord spoke to me about two people to ask for more personal
funds. Month 7 I actually asked those people to partner with me. Month 8 I came
to Cambodia with only $15 in my bank account, but within a week of being in the
country, God multiplied that amount to $615 from the people He told me to ask!
All he wanted me to do was trust Him.
I don’t trust that He
has my family in the palm of His hands. Isaiah 49:16
My
gma and papaw have both passed away while I have been on the field. Over and
over again He has been asking me if I trust my family into His hands. That even
though I am one of a few Christians in my family, I don’t need to be there
right now to minister to them because He is already doing the work.
If
you are sitting here and wondering how the Lord could ever use a situation in
your life that was so bad for His good, then know and trust that He will.
Everything that has
happened in your life is for a purpose. He will use your story to reach out to
someone in the future. The question is: Do
you really trust that what you are going through today will be used for the
glory of His Kingdom in the future?
Here are three God-breathed reasons to
trust Him.
1.
In Mark 1 Jesus said, “Come follow me and I will make you fishers of men.” If
you trust Him, He will lead you to others who need to know of His love. Every
day we must die to self for the sake of His glory.
2.
The Lord spoke to Solomon in 2
Chronicles 7:14, “If my people who
are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and
turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive
their sin and will heal their land.” He wants you to get on your knees, to
completely humble yourself before Him and pray.
3. In Matthew
4:4 Jesus spoke, “It is written; ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on
every word that comes from the mouth of God.” We have to trust. To trust in
His Word and to trust in the promises that He has laid out before us.
Where will you put
your trust?
Put your trust and hope in God and His
word.
