TRUSTING IN GOD? CAN WE?
Have you ever had an issue with “Trusting in GOD” or am I the only one with that problem?
By now you all know my style of writing I write as I feel and I try not to preach!
Anyway for a while now I have only trusted in God with regards to the big issues like health related and life threatening matters that is beyond me. So now you have my theory on trust!
I kind of trust God only when there is nothing else that can be done sort of like when you no longer know what else to do?
So I am at a point in my life where I am reawakened. I have had to suddenly relearn the art and act of Trusting God with everything whole ha!
I must trust God with everything, the big stuff, the mundane, the silly, the simple and the difficult.
It’s easy to trust yourself, trust your husband/wife, trust your siblings and anyone else that you can see. We all know that God exists in one form or the other, but do we really “TRUST IN GOD”?
Can God be trusted at all with all the global melt down and economic downturns, earth quakes and tsunamis, and the perennial melee that plagues our world?
Why are things seemingly getting worse?
Why are we more depressed and have to fight one scourge or the other?
Why are we knowing more and getting less from our knowledge?
Why are we fighting senseless wars and loosing fine men and women in these wars?
Why does peace elude us in our world?
Where is God in all of these? Can God be trusted in the 21st Century?
Is God on holiday? Has He resigned or retired from his position as God?
Has God left us to figure it all out by ourselves since we claim to know so much? Is God in the Church? Is God still in control of the world’s affairs or has God lost control?
These and more are the questions that go through my mind but I realize that we only question when things are not working our way, and when things stop working our way once we miss the mark, which explains why we need to look inward and judge our actions and find our paths back to God.
God is still God.
God is still good.
God is still in control.
God is still true.
God is still faithful.
God is still dependable.
God can never ever lose control. He is the reason why we can still make sense out of our existence.
After thinking through the whole matter of whether God can be trusted or not I come to the conclusion that HE alone can and MUST be TRUSTED!
Not to trust in God is to trust in a man which is the accruement of a curse upon the head of any man who makes the arm of flesh his strength.
Trusting God is a command and not a mere injunction.
We must trust in God more than ever before. We must not only trust in God in good times but also in the times of adversity and difficult challenges.
I have found in the HOLY WRIT, 12 strong reasons why we must trust in God with scriptural references to back these points up.
1. God is the creator of heaven and the earth and everything in between heaven and earth, Genesis 1.1/31
2. God is the owner and possessor of all things, kingdoms, thrones, queens and kings, commoners everything belongs to God, Psalm 24.
3. God is the owner of all the silver and all the gold. Haggai 2:8
4. God can do anything He decides to do whenever He decides to do it. Jeremiah 32:27
5. God sees far and near, and He fills everything in heaven and on earth. Jeremiah 23:23/24.
6. God loves man and He gave his highest and best through his son; JESUS CHRIST! If He gave so much who best to trust? John 3:16.
7. God’s counsel always STANDS even when we make our own ways as mere men. Proverbs 16:9, Proverbs 19:21.
8. God is Alpha and Omega; He is the beginning and the end. Revelations 22:13.
9. God never fails because love never fails and God is love. 1Corinthians 13:8A
10. God desires that all his children prosper and be in health always that is one of God’s biggest desires after salvation, who best then to trust than God Himself? 3John2.
11. God’s thoughts for his creations are for good and never for evil to give us a future and a hope. Whenever God thinks of us He thinks only good, and never evil should we not trust in this God? Jeremiah 29:11
12. God commands that we trust only in Him and not in any man. God realizes that man is frail and his every thought is continually evil when he is not regenerated,
so God commands that we trust only in Him, so that we be not disappointed and so that we do not come under the curse. Jeremiah. (Please spend time to find exactly where this can be found in the book of Jeremiah!)
As a human being seeking for God’s hands and face in my affairs I must learn to trust not in the government , in institutions, the family, and friends but to put my trust only in the living God.
Everything that can be shaken will be shaken and so there is no other and better time than now to trust. I am not talking about religiosity! No! No! No! I am talking about knowing and trusting God for ourselves for the days that we are living in are evil.
I am talking about knowing and trusting God for who He is and for what He can do.
It is they that know their God that shall be strong and do exploits!
So we must commit ourselves to relearning the art and act of “TRUSTING”!
To trust is to rely upon.
To trust is to depend upon.
To trust is to have confidence in something and someone.
Is God trustworthy?
Is God dependable?
Is God faithful?
Is God true?
If your answers are YES to all these questions then please put your TRUST in GOD ALMIGHTY ALONE!
HAVE A TRULY BLESSED AND TRUSTING MONTH IN APRIL.
COPYRIGHT @ VICTORIA FADEYI APRIL 2010
