Trust in the Lord

 

Trust in The Lord

One of the biggest struggles with the children of God is trust. Mark 12:30 says, “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 to love Him only on Sundays or while reading the Bible. He’s telling 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 strengths. He doesn’t want to be excluded from any part of our life. He doesn’t want us to invite Him into our homes and tell Him the bedroom and closets are off limits. God doesn’t want us to limit Him in any way. He wants us totally.

So, how do we trust Him with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our strength? Do we dare show Him our bad habits, our weaknesses and failure while knowing He already knows? Do we trust Him only when we are happy and healthy? What about our illnesses, can we trust Him to be our great Physician? 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 up his cross and follow Me. Forever whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.”

The cross we bear could be an addiction, a bad attitude, a terminal illness, a bad relationship. 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 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.” It is hard to trust God and totally love Him when there is so much suffering surrounding us, but God doesn’t expect us to understand the “why’s of things, He just tells us in Proverbs 3:5 to trust Him and not lean upon our own understanding. Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the thoughts I think toward you, says the Lord, 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 you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity.”

For more posts like this, go to: https://sherrysouthard.blogspot.com.Please read the scriptures listed, study them, apply them to your life and grow in the saving relationship with Jesus Christ our Savior.