It’s relatively easy to trust someone with your belongings.
We lend our friends our books, our cars or even our houses. Trusting others
with our emotions might be a little bit more difficult however, we eventually
get to the point where we give in. With our lives – that’s whole other ball
game. To give over control of the direction your life takes to somebody else is
sometimes unfathomable.
But, that is what God requires of us. Proverbs 3:5-6 says to
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own
understanding. Seek his will in all you
do, and he will show you which path to take.” Can we really wait for God to
tell us which path to take? If you’re impatient like me, you probably don’t
like that scripture verse very much. Sometimes I feel like God is taking too
long to make stuff happen and I want to do it myself. I’ve found that I always
make a bigger mess of things. Exercising a little bit more patience and trust
in the one who engineered me always brings the right result at the right time.
So why do I/we always try to go back and take control of stuff again, even
after we’ve seen God work on our behalf? It’s because, even with evidence of
the contrary, letting go of your own destiny and allowing someone else to
fulfill it feels like suicide.
So, like hamsters on a wheel, we take control, we mess
things up, we give it to God and when he fixes it, we try to take it all back.
Over and over and over, we do the same things until something drastic happens
to us and God gets our attention.
At the end of the day, if we look back, we’ll see that it
would have been so much easier just to trust God in the first place. He’s our
creator and he has our best interest at heart.
He also knows the best way to fix any situation in our lives. We trust mechanics
with our cars because they know more than we do about how a car functions. God
knows much more about us and about how our lives should function than we could
ever imagine. Trust Him and watch him come through for you.
Joana James - Author of Nightmare at Emerald High & Alana and Alyssa's Secret
Very nice Joana! That is one of my biggest hurdles but over the years I seem to overcome it a little bit more. The closer I get with Him, the less I could care less about the some of the stuff that I used to have trouble trusting Him with.
ReplyDeleteThanks Joan. I write this even as I struggle with my own desire to take control of my life. It is definitely not the easiest thing to do, yet, it's the wisest thing we can ever do!
ReplyDeleteGood Job Joana,
ReplyDeleteAs I learn to lean not to my own understanding, I am gaining better perspective on what to do and what not to do. I know we must die daily to our sins. Challenge is we keep sinning. It make me at least often times not trust me. Learning to not hold grudges even against myself for my mistakes. I'm also learning to help others even in and during my struggle. I will be looking for more of your work. I seek your inspirational words and I hope you get a chance to check out some of mine @ http://CashFlowsToo.com.
Again, I wish you continued success and your hearts desires. I pray you continue to grow in your trust and faith and you embrace your Faith Walk with God.
Have a blessed day.
Thanks Monty!
DeleteI know exactly what you mean about trusting and waiting on God =-)
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