Monday, August 12, 2013

How Far Will Your Trust Take You?

My Utmost For His Highest
 
‘God expects His children to be so confident in Him that in any crisis they are the ones who are reliable. Yet our trust is only in God up to a certain point, then we turn back to the elementary panic-stricken prayers of those people who do not even know God. We come to our wits’ end, showing that we don’t have even the slightest amount of confidence in Him or in His sovereign control of the world. To us He seems to be asleep, and we can see nothing but giant, breaking waves on the sea ahead of us.’ CHAMBERS
 
There are two verses that God has stirred up in my heart in the past few weeks.  “Why did you doubt?” [Matthew 14:31] and “Where is your faith?” [Luke 8:25]  In the first instance Peter was with Jesus … and Peter lost his confidence in Jesus and started trusting in himself.  In the second, all of the disciples were with Jesus .. and they lost their confidence in Jesus .. even though Jesus was sleeping which should have been a clue … in each case, Jesus asked a similar question .. “If you are with Me, why would you lose confidence in the outcome of the circumstance you find yourself in?”
 
That is the question that comes to my mind .. and the answer is .. I was leaning on my own understanding because my trust in God was not strong enough.  How about you?  Be careful .. be careful that the shame of failing in trust does not cause you to draw away from the Lord … It is at the very moment that we need to draw closer .. keeping in mind that He has promised to never leave us and never forsake us.  [Hebrews 13:5]
 
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)

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