This blog was inspired from the lessons of utter trust I have gained time and time again for my bag called life.
This post may seem straightforward for many, but I do believe that many of the hardest lessons to put into play are the ones that said, are the easiest.
The past week and a half of my life has been so crazy. It has had ups, downs, and curves of all sorts. A huge whale of an animal has been placed into my suitcase for this journey and life in general,and he is known as trust. I welcome this gift, as I have prayed for patience and more trust for me, Jesus, and the people in my life and boy did trust show up. Not in a way my finite mind had planned, but just what Jesus orchestrated (for my benefit, despite the temporary molding pain it may have caused). He is a Father who loves and because He loves us, He molds us like diamonds under the pressures of life.
When you have one thing planed and life shows up with a big curveball and knocks you sideways to the ground, it takes you a second to stand back up and develop trust to go back to bat. Once you take that step forward and get hit again, you begin to wander if trust really is the best option.
But Jesus says in Proverbs, “Trust in Me with all of your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Me and I will make straight your path.” (3:5-6) We, as humans, seem to trust only when we get something out of it, we like to know that immediately something will happen.
This is where patience and trust seem to have a family bond of some sort. Where trust lacks, patience lacks. Sometimes we don’t even realize that we lack these things until, our loving Father allows life to mold us.
While yes, molding is sometimes painful, we gain back a true meaning of trust and we acquire more patience. Molding will always be somewhat painful or uncomfortable because when we begin to change, uncertainty arises and that’s where faith comes in. We have faith that God is molding our lives, despite how that may have looked for us.
The solid thing I have learned about trust is it requires unwavering faith. Faith put into action with certain hope that no matter what the outcome it is going to be okay.
I believe trust and patience are best friends. Faith holds both of them in her arms, but trust and patience stand like twins together. Where patience wanders, trust follows.
Most relationships are built first on trust and closely followed by patience. The amazing thing about Jesus working in our lives is He has given us no reason not to trust Him, yet trust sometimes remains a hard thing. For when we trust, we release control. We release our hold on life. We allow His supernatural power and Spirit to invade in ways that we would never be able to do, even if we tried. When we simply give into who He is and His spirit, we gain the trust we once never thought we had. Because He is so loving to pursue, faithful to give hope, and undeniably faithful-He builds trust where trust was lacking and He opens our eyes to see the value of trust.
He opens our eyes to see the benefits of patience.
He opens our hearts to see Him at work.
I will always need trust and pray He molds me to have more and more with Him daily. He holds back nothing from His children and I did need a refresher on basic trust this past week or so. He is faithful to provide and He is more than faithful to hold us up!
We will always need more of Jesus and a piece of Him will always rest in our ability to trust in Him, despite life.
Let’s keep running the race and keep acquiring more whales of glory (patience, kindness, love, hope, and many others).
He makes us BRAVE!
-V
