Trust in the LORD with all your heart
And do not lean on your own
understanding.
Proverbs
3:5
Thoughts ~ My parents bought a couple of acres in the mountains when I was in the fourth grade. The lot was on a hilly terrain and over the years they built a cabin, complete with a bunkhouse for the kids. We spent every summer and many weekends up north and had no television there for a very long time. We weren't really TV kids back then anyway. Mini-bikes, fishing, exploring and late night reading were all part of our entertainment. And jigsaw puzzles.
We loved putting puzzles
together and all 4 of the kids and my parents would work on one, on and off. One
rainy day the whole family was working on a gigantic puzzle and we came to the
end when we discovered a missing piece. We searched everywhere for it and only
after looking for at least 5 minutes did my little brother pull it out of his
pocket. Always the jokester, he exclaimed he wanted to add the last piece
because it was the most important.
Trust in God is like a puzzle
at times. We want to hold back a piece of ourselves, not surrendering our “all”
to Him. We subconsciously can’t believe He would care enough, love us enough,
or have enough the power to change our lives. And the reason for this lack of
complete faith is that we are not God. As humans, we are not completely
trustworthy. We try to be and most of us
are to a point, but there is a part of us that reserves a little piece of a
puzzle, just in case we need it.
In order to fully trust the
Lord, we cannot lean on our human understanding. When we are putting our trust
in Him for a particular situation, we must pray for His help in teaching us to
trust Him. Banning the enemy of God from trying to deceive us, we need to come
to God with the trust of a little child. We must put our whole heart into trusting Him. And when we do, our lives will
forever be changed.
Action~ Is it hard to put all of our trust in God? Sure it is . . . and that is
what faith is all about. Keeping a journal of your trials and how God rescues
you time and time again will help you to see that He is faithful and consistent
in His love for you. His love never fails.
This acronym might help:
Trials bring us to the
point of trusting God
Rest in God’s ability to
put the puzzle pieces together
Unending awareness of God’s holiness,
love and power
Surrender to God your
anxieties, worries, frets, burdens
Thankful for God’s better plan
than our own.
Pray~ Father, forgive my lack of trust in You. Your example of trustworthiness
in my life never fails. I fail, but You do not. Thank You for Your amazing
love. Thank You for my life lessons.
Trusting in the Lord,
Becky
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