We hear “trust God” all the time, but what does that mean and more importantly, is it an action? Does trusting God just mean sitting around and then whatever I prayed for is supposed to happen? There are great advantages to trusting God to work in your situation; you can find peace, joy, power and contentment. However, I think we often trust in things changing and not really trust in God completely. What I mean is, we are trusting in God, but more than likely we are just hoping for the situation to change how we want it to change and if it doesn’t our faith is shattered, our faith crumbles, our faith in God fades away because we were just looking for a change in our situation in the way we were expecting it to turn out. for us we just see the moment at that time but God sees the big picture in our life and he has a reason for anything and everything that happens. He knows what's best for each of us. Like for me at this moment I'm grieving at the lose of a few people i know who have passed away because of cancer or car accidents. I know that many of them are in heaven dancing with my Heavenly Father right at this moment. I'm praying that their loved ones left on earth are not angry at God but instead trusting God in the hardest of circumstances. That this wouldn't be a time to stray away from God. There's no pain, hurt,sin, illness in heaven. And that's beautiful place to be in. Sometimes when this happens we lose sight of God, we lose sight of what it means to trust God because the situations and circumstances of our life didn’t change in our favor like how we wanted it to change. This is so easy to do, Sometimes I see myself trusting in “it” or “them” and not in “Him.” It’s easy to think we are trusting fully in God, but in reality we have other things that we put our trust in other than God. It doesn’t mean that we don’t have faith, it just means we need to place our faith in the right direction this time. We have to literally trust God with everything. We have to trust him in everything that he brings our way. What that means is, we have to believe and expect God to move and do something to help us because of His power, His love, His grace, and because we believe in His Son Jesus Christ. There are problems that come with trust though, a majority of us have had trust issues with people and if we have that, those very trust issues can go into our relationship with God.
I mean, let’s be honest when things go wrong we sometimes tend to blame God to a certain extent, and in some different circumstances. It’s so hard to trust someone you don’t know, but the thing is, we can get to know God. We can know God. He knows me, he knows the number of hairs on my head, he knows the desires of my heart, he knows me personally when MOST of the world doesn't know me.
You have to know that God loves you. God cares for me, you must know that. You don’t die for what you don’t care for. Most parents will say “I’d die for my child” when you hear that, that’s love, that’s care, that’s concern, but that hasn’t happened, because they are still alive. Well, think about this; God sent His Son Jesus to literally die for you. Guess what? You are literally to die for. You are that valuable and worthy to God. He loves you.
You have to know that God has your best interest in mind. Jeremiah 29:11 tells us that God has a plan for our life. He thinks good thoughts towards us. He loves us. It also tells us He has a future for us. When we read that we wonder; if this happened how is this God loving me and caring for me and having my best interest in mind? Something we have to face the truth that we won’t always know what or why it happened. We just have to learn about God in the process and accept what He allowed knowing it’s for my good and His glory. It’s hard to do, but as we grow in our knowledge and understanding of God it becomes easier to let things go.
You have to know that our home is in Heaven. Too often we get so caught up in the world and the worlds system we forget that we aren’t going to be on earth forever. We tend to try to build our own kingdom on this Earth and forget that God will take us to be with Him someday. We have to have an awareness that what I am doing for God now is impacting people Eternally, if we only live for the present, we will never be as effective in changing people’s eternal destinies. Too many of us as Christians are forgetting that we will receive a majority, hopefully, of our rewards in heaven. Its good to live for another day and expect the best, but to think that’s all there is is destructive to our walk with God. We can’t think that life is just here on this sin cursed world, as a matter of fact if all we want to do is live here forever we are in trouble. We have to know, that no matter what Heaven is our destination. God has a place reserved in Heaven for us. One day God will take me home to be with Him. That’s why it’s important to be dedicated to serving God and trying to get people in Heaven with us. As I make strong relationships in the many different countries I'm going to this year and all the goodbyes that I have to say. All the strangers that I meet and soon become friends of mine. I soon realize that this is probably the only and last time ill see them on earth unless God connects us together somehow, somewhere in this world. And all the people that I will be seeing in Heaven. One if the reasons why God has called me on World race And I'm experiencing it. I wouldn't ask for anything else than what I'm living right now. This thought is beautiful. The goodbyes here on earth may be hard but I'm trusting and believing that I will be seeing them again in heaven.
Well, another question we can have is what do we do while trusting God? Do we just sit around and talk or look at our watch or something? This is a good question, but the answer is no. It doesn’t mean sit around and scheme. What we should do is serve God while we are trusting in Him to change our situations. God may not be changing the situation because he is trying to change our hearts.
Something to think about…
Join a Ministry – When you join a ministry, your level of trust in God will go up, because you are dependent on His ability to help you to be effective in it. When we really serve God we begin to learn about God and as we learn about God it becomes easier to trust Him when things seem out of control.
Love someone- Pick someone to favor, to bless, to help, to pray for, try it out! It’s cool to help someone you like, but why not pick someone who is hard to love or perhaps that you don’t like. You’ll find out when you do loving things you will begin to love with the love of Christ. If you have a willing heart God can change your heart towards that person.
Father in Jesus Name, I come to You grateful, grateful that I can trust You with my life. Lord, sanctify me, set me apart in a new way for Your glory. Lord, I trust You with my life, but show me those areas where I am lacking in faith, lacking in trust, lacking in my walk with You and help me to have the concern to ask You to show me how to grow beyond and above them. Lord, create in me a clean heart and make my heart loyal to You. Father, create a better way for my life, Lord, if I am headed in the wrong direction, send a sign and stir my heart to seek You about it, don't let me make a wrong move based on the flesh and self life. Guide my life Holy Spirit, I ask this for Your glory, please fulfill these requests based on the shed blood of Jesus on the Cross may my light shine and Your Kingdom be glorified through this moment in Jesus Name! AMEN!
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Have you accepted Christ to be your personal savior?
If not, here’s what you are missing. You are missing satisfaction in life. You are missing the blessings of God in and through your life. You are missing the blessing of being able to know God intimately and know Him for the pardoning of your sins. You are missing the blessing of being able to serve God and impact your community and the world around you. You are missing the beauty of God revealing Himself to you and helping you in your daily life. You are missing out on such great things. God wants the best for you and His best starts with you admitting you have sinned against Him and that you need a Savior for your sins, that Savior is Jesus Christ. Like me, will you rebel against God’s plan and will for your life? Will you submit to Gods will so He can save you and redirect your life? God can get you off any drugs, any habit or addiction, nothing can stop God and God will stop at nothing to stop it from stopping you from reaching your full potential for Christ. God loves you so much, why wait and why reject His message. If you want to be saved for-real, just pray this prayer:
