I want you guys to entertain a notion that I have,
A notion that the Lord has placed on my heart.
It's a notion of trust.
So, when we think of trust and God and we put those two words together
They usually come out like this:
I trust God.
I don't trust God.
I don't know if I can trust God.
Well, here's the part that I ask you to entertain,
because people don't think of it this way really.
And I don't want you to take it the wrong way, because when I ask this next question,
I don't want you to think that I'm suggesting that,
a. God needs us — because He doesn't.
or
b. God has placed all of His dependency on us — because He hasn't.
God is PERFECTLY capable of doing everything on His own, but he chooses to USE us.
But, the question regarding trust that I have been thinking about is,
What about GOD trusting US?
I mean, think about it.
If God is essentially our Heavenly Father, then isn't that correlated with how our parents are towards us in just a heightened shape or fashion? I mean He is God so obviously there's a difference there. 😉
Putting it in a scenario,
You and your parents. Your parents ask you to go run an errand for them (assuming you can drive). Your parents TRUST you enough to get that errand done. If you don't get that errand done and instead you go do something else, then obviously you have broken that trust, but its not that the trust there is not able to be restored.
God is not some angry spirit giving us an opportunity and then if we break it and break the trust, He revokes our chances for the rest of our lives.
No, it's actually quite different.
Because He is God, and because He loves us, and because we are His children,
He allows us to grow. He allows us to "be kids." He allows us to make mistakes.
Because when we make mistakes, we
Grow..
We
Learn to trust Him more..
We
Respond to His voice better..
And essentially, we
Learn from those mistakes..
Because we don't know any better and even if we do, we really don't although we try to pretend like we know everything. (make sense?)
So, this is how I see peoples' callings.
God has equipped us, prepared us, and enTRUSTed us with the callings He has placed on our lives.
And sometimes we fail. It's just a fact of life.
We don't say the things we should have said.
We don't do what He asks us to do.
We say the opposite of what we know.
We don't believe what He's told us.
But in those moments of weakness, He moves. He shows His power.
And he reveals Himself so much more than He would have been able to if we did everything perfectly all the time.
So, with all that being said..
The God of the universe trusts you.
Do you trust Him?
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 2 Corinthians 12:9
