When I sit and ponder this life and I think of God and my relationship with Him. I also think of what it is that the world is lacking when it comes to God. I believe trust is a big issue that needs to be addressed among the children of God. Mark 12:30 "You shall love the Lord your God with ALL your heart, with ALL your soul, with ALL your mind, and with ALL your strength." He isn't telling us that He wants us to love Him only on Sundays, or just as you read the Bible. He's telling us that He wants us to love Him every minute, every second of the day. He's not telling us that we should only give Him the part that feels good inside, but He wants us to love Him in our weaknesses and in our strengths. He doesn't want to be excluded from our life in any fashion. He doesn't want us to invite Him into our homes, yet tell Him the bedroom or the close is off limits. God doesn't want us to limit Him in any way. He wants us totally. But how do we trust Him with ALL of our heart, ALL of our soul, mind and strength? Do we dare show Him our bad habits, our weaknesses, our failures when deep down inside we know that He already knows? Do we trust Him only when we are happy and healthy? Why can't we trust Him with our illnesses too? Do we not know that in Mark 10:27b "with God all things are possible." Mark 8:34-35 " Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take us his cross and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the Gospel's will save it." What is our cross? Is it a drug addiction, a bad attitude, a terminal illness, a bad relationship, unforgiveness? Each of us has a cross to bear and Jesus tells us to take it up and follow Him. We must take our burdens to Him and lay them down at His feet. No man or woman can do for us as Jesus can. Psalm 118:9 "It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in man. Is it hard to understand why we are so weak when it comes to loving God with ALL our heart, soul, mind and strength.? Yes, it is tremendously hard to trust God and to totally love Him when so much suffering enters our life. But God doesn't expect us to understand the why's of things, He just tells us in Proverbs 3:5 "Trust in the Lord, with ALL your heart, and lean not on your own understanding." Jeremiah 29:11-14 "For I know the thoughts I think toward you, says the Lord, the thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me and I will listen to you, And you will seek Me and find Me, when your search for me with ALL your heart. I will be found by you, says the Lord, and i will bring you back from captivity." God is offering us quality of life. He can heal us, mend us, rid us from or afflictions and take the load of our cross off our shoulders. Trust in Him.
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