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Trust God
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not
lean on your own understanding. In all your ways
acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths
straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6
Knowledge has increased dramatically in our
century. We know more and more about the world
around us and we have better and better access to
this database of human knowledge every day. But the
more we learn, the more we realize that we still
really don’t know very much.
There is so much we don’t know that it is
beyond measurement. When we gaze into the heavens,
we see vast galaxies and formations so far away and
so big that they defy comprehension. They once
pointed several telescopes towards a tiny black part
of the night sky and did a composite image of it and
guess what? What we thought was an empty part of
space was filled with stars and galaxies – we just
couldn’t see them. There is so much out there we
have not even begun to grasp it. Then when we turn
our gaze inward and look at the micro-universe of
cells and molecules and atoms and subatomic
particles again we are amazed at how much we
don’t know. It is an entire other universe in the
opposite direction and the more we magnify it, the
more we realize is in there. For all we know this
micro-universe is as vast and immeasurable as the
one we see on a clear night.
And this is just the
physical universe. What of all of the non-physical
realities around us such as thought, emotion, the
spiritual world, the future, love, etc. We know even less
about these areas. This is why God tells us to trust
Him with all of our heart and to not lean on our own
understanding. He understands everything. We really don’t (we just think we do).
He knows the future, we don't.
We are to base our life decisions on God’s word, not our
limited understanding of the issue. And He promises
us that if we do this, He will bless our life. To
trust God also means to trust that He has a plan for
your life, a plan to prosper and bless you (Jer
29:11). We are to trust Him in good and bad times –
even when things seem to be not going so well (Job).
We are blessed by God when we trust Him (Psalm
84:12).
Our ultimate act of trust is to put God
first in our life and everything else second (Mark
10:28-30). This is the level of trust that God
requires of us for us to be His disciples. We trust
Him with our very lives (Gal 2:20). We deny
ourselves, take up our cross and follow Him (Matt
10:38-39). Trusting God is thinking supernaturally
rather than naturally about life.
It is to reject our natural inclinations and
respond supernaturally, live supernaturally. It is
to look at your accomplishments and understand that
"God did it, not me". He sustains my very life.
Everything good that I have and do and am is because
of Him. We acknowledge His hand in our lives, and He
blesses us, keeping our paths straight. Trust in
God.
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"Choose you this day whom you will
serve.....but as for me and my house, we will serve
the LORD."
Joshua 24:15