Trust
Before you read this let me just say this, I wrote the below paragraphs about 2hours prior to what I'm writing now in between studying. Just now I started a new chapter in my studies of business management and it happens to be on trust. I'm in my second sentence and this is what it says: "Trust is an expression of confidence in another person or group of people that you will not be put at risk, harmed or injured by their actions." I thought its pretty cool in light of what has been on my mind. Funny how God even puts it in my studies....
I have a new favourite verse from 2 Chron 16:9 "For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward Him." another version says "The eyes of the LORD run through the earth, to show himself strong for those who trust him".
I could be wrong but the way I have come to see the word "blameless" in the first version is something of purity of heart, of knowing deep within that God has your best interest at heart, that He does not have one inch of mailciousness towards you. I see it as me not holding anything against God, having no offence towards Him that I blame Him for, knowing that no matter what my circumstances show, HE ALONE IS GOOD. In essence, Trusting Him. It will show in your actions. If you trust God has best for you, you won't take the first thing that comes by because you are desperate, you will not run after things that wont make you happy.
It perplexes me how we(me too) will say we trust God in a situation and walk around all sad face because now we might have a horrible life. Why do we trust God if we don't believe He has the best for us? Why trust Him if we don't believe He can work things for the good?? Why trust if we don't believe that the Fruit of the Spirit is joy, peace, love etc.? We are not trusting in Him so that He can make us miserable and we appear holy. We trust in Him because He is good. Because He carried our sorrows(Is 53). Because He knows the plans He has to me, plans to prosper me and not to harm me, plans to give me a hope and a future. Flip that verse is so over used but so true! Why trust in something if it doesn't give you hope? If its not good? Just so we can have a miserable time and then go to heaven? I believe that you can have the most incredible joy and peace in ANY circumstance if you trust that He will work it for good and just ASK.
What does it mean for you to trust someone? If you trust your dad when he tells you not to go out walking alone in the street even though you really want to, does it mean he does not have your best interest at heart?? Trusting your dad will mean that you know that He knows better and it IS for your GOOD that He tells you not to go. When He tells you to study hard even though you find it so difficult it is because He see it will be for your good to be qualified in future. for your Good, for your good, for your good!! He works it for good. in the end its for our goood. Rebelling, grumbling, living like there is no hope for tomorrow, means that you are not trusting because you are not believing that God has your best at heart. If you trust you will live like there is a hope of a marvelous future that your Most High Father has planned for you! It's that thing of, if your earthly father knows how to give good gifts to his children, how much more will does your heavenly Father know whats best for you(theres a verse somewhere about that).
You might know the story below about God rescuing the Israelites from Egypt to take them to the promised land. Looking at the whole story it started out that God rescued the Israelites from a horrible place and took them through the wilderness because on the other side, God had the best for them, a land of milk and honey. But their grumbling and lack of trust that God would do what He said He would do, meant they wandered for 40 years. I have realised lately how absolutely essential trusting God and what He says is.
deuteronomy 8:
Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. 4Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
6 Observe the commands of the LORD your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him. 7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; 8 a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; 9 a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.
10 When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you. 11 Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. 12 Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, 13 and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, 14 then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 15 He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock. 16 He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you. 17 You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” 18 But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.
I have a new favourite verse from 2 Chron 16:9 "For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward Him." another version says "The eyes of the LORD run through the earth, to show himself strong for those who trust him".
I could be wrong but the way I have come to see the word "blameless" in the first version is something of purity of heart, of knowing deep within that God has your best interest at heart, that He does not have one inch of mailciousness towards you. I see it as me not holding anything against God, having no offence towards Him that I blame Him for, knowing that no matter what my circumstances show, HE ALONE IS GOOD. In essence, Trusting Him. It will show in your actions. If you trust God has best for you, you won't take the first thing that comes by because you are desperate, you will not run after things that wont make you happy.
It perplexes me how we(me too) will say we trust God in a situation and walk around all sad face because now we might have a horrible life. Why do we trust God if we don't believe He has the best for us? Why trust Him if we don't believe He can work things for the good?? Why trust if we don't believe that the Fruit of the Spirit is joy, peace, love etc.? We are not trusting in Him so that He can make us miserable and we appear holy. We trust in Him because He is good. Because He carried our sorrows(Is 53). Because He knows the plans He has to me, plans to prosper me and not to harm me, plans to give me a hope and a future. Flip that verse is so over used but so true! Why trust in something if it doesn't give you hope? If its not good? Just so we can have a miserable time and then go to heaven? I believe that you can have the most incredible joy and peace in ANY circumstance if you trust that He will work it for good and just ASK.
What does it mean for you to trust someone? If you trust your dad when he tells you not to go out walking alone in the street even though you really want to, does it mean he does not have your best interest at heart?? Trusting your dad will mean that you know that He knows better and it IS for your GOOD that He tells you not to go. When He tells you to study hard even though you find it so difficult it is because He see it will be for your good to be qualified in future. for your Good, for your good, for your good!! He works it for good. in the end its for our goood. Rebelling, grumbling, living like there is no hope for tomorrow, means that you are not trusting because you are not believing that God has your best at heart. If you trust you will live like there is a hope of a marvelous future that your Most High Father has planned for you! It's that thing of, if your earthly father knows how to give good gifts to his children, how much more will does your heavenly Father know whats best for you(theres a verse somewhere about that).
You might know the story below about God rescuing the Israelites from Egypt to take them to the promised land. Looking at the whole story it started out that God rescued the Israelites from a horrible place and took them through the wilderness because on the other side, God had the best for them, a land of milk and honey. But their grumbling and lack of trust that God would do what He said He would do, meant they wandered for 40 years. I have realised lately how absolutely essential trusting God and what He says is.
deuteronomy 8:
Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. 4Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
6 Observe the commands of the LORD your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him. 7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; 8 a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; 9 a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.
10 When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you. 11 Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. 12 Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, 13 and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, 14 then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 15 He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock. 16 He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you. 17 You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” 18 But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.
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