All Your Trust
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths" (Proverbs 3:5-6).
Beloved child of God, what do you do when life throws an unexpected trouble, trial, or hardship your way? Do you immediately panic or do you pray? Do you go to worrying on God or go to waiting on God? Do you listen and wait first...or quickly speak and complain and rush to solve it?
First of all, God does not ask you to figure things out...but to FOLLOW HIM OUT! This requires us to be looking toward, listening to, and longing for Him. But...hasn't God always been faithful to lead and to guide and to provide? Can we not sing, "All my life You have been faithful! All my life, you have been so so good! With every breath that I am able..." let us sing of the goodness of God and trust the Lord at all times...as we seek to love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.
There are times where God tests us to bring out the best in us. He allows a change or transition to take place in our lives so that we get to see what is inside our hearts and to learn what God has been preparing for us. As Deuteronomy 8:2 says, "And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not."
A closed door is just an opportunity for a new open door. A temporal transition allows for a spiritual transformation that we might return to simplicity in heart and singularity of vision to remember all that God has taught us and accomplished for us under His sovereign hand.
When we come to a change, we must remember the charge that God has already given to us. In other words, when we do not know something, we must fall back on what we do know.
We are spiritual pilgrims passing through this life and going through various seasons for God-ordained reasons and we must learn to let God write our story and lead us to new pastures. The walk of faith is a pilgrimage from one place of blessing to another. For..."Your statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage" (Ps. 119:54).
Whether it was Abraham being asked to leave his former life with his family in his homeland to a place that he did not yet know or Philip being asked where he was going to buy enough bread to feed the multitudes, we need to TRUST GOD into the unknown to expect Him to do what He already knows He will do. This may be hard for us but this is precisely what brings forth the good works that only He can do in and through our lives.
Think about it...the only difference between a hard place and a good place is the time it takes for God to work it all together.
This is what we learn in Psalm 84 when the psalmist pursues the living God and places all of our trust in Him as they pass through the place of weeping and come out on the other side with springs of joy as they witness what God does and will do for His people. It is interesting that the psalmist sings on the instrument of Gath, where the giants of old were slain...and where the obstacles were replaced by the miracles.
"Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, Whose heart is set on pilgrimage. As they pass through the Valley of Baca ("weeping" - balsam trees), They make it a spring; The rain also covers it with pools." (Psalm 84:5-6).
The Lord already knows. The Lord already sees the ends from the beginnings. Our pilgrimage is a journey of faith that allows us and enables us to see what He already sees and knows that we might be those who go from strength to strength and from glory to glory.
Psalm 65:4-5 says, "Blessed is the man You choose, And cause to approach You,
That he may dwell in Your courts (where even the birds are taken care of). We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, Of Your holy temple. By awesome deeds in righteousness YOU WILL ANSWER US, O God of our salvation, You who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth, And of the far-off seas"
What confidence we ought to have in the providence of God...who leads and guides His people even when we may come to a crossroads where we must cross the waters of our Red Sea and our River Jordan. These are special seasons in our lives that sanctify us, deepen us, and mature us so that we can enter the next season He has prepared and purposed for us.
Psalm 77 reminds us that we must cry out to God in the day of trouble but we must also trust Him to make a way when there doesn't seem to be a way:
"Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary; Who is so great a God as our God?
You are the God who does wonders; You have declared Your strength among the peoples.
"Your way was in the sea, Your path in the great waters, And Your footsteps were not known.
You led Your people like a flock By the hand of Moses and Aaron." (Ps. 77:13-14, 19-20)
When God is showing us His way, all that is left for us to do is to TRUST and OBEY.
So let us...
PURSUE the living God!
PRAISE Him for His past faithfulness!
PREPARE for the good plans to come!
For when all is said and done, we will BE LED and we will HAVE WON!
"O LORD of hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in You!" (Psalm 84:12)
For Further Reflection:
1. What are you facing personally or collectively that requires you to fully trust the Lord?
2. When a change or transition seems inevitable, what are ways that you can simplify your life and take each step of faith with a new pursuit, praise, and preparation?
3. If God were to give you what you wanted, what would you do with it that would bring Him glory?
In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths" (Proverbs 3:5-6).
Beloved child of God, what do you do when life throws an unexpected trouble, trial, or hardship your way? Do you immediately panic or do you pray? Do you go to worrying on God or go to waiting on God? Do you listen and wait first...or quickly speak and complain and rush to solve it?
First of all, God does not ask you to figure things out...but to FOLLOW HIM OUT! This requires us to be looking toward, listening to, and longing for Him. But...hasn't God always been faithful to lead and to guide and to provide? Can we not sing, "All my life You have been faithful! All my life, you have been so so good! With every breath that I am able..." let us sing of the goodness of God and trust the Lord at all times...as we seek to love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.
There are times where God tests us to bring out the best in us. He allows a change or transition to take place in our lives so that we get to see what is inside our hearts and to learn what God has been preparing for us. As Deuteronomy 8:2 says, "And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not."
A closed door is just an opportunity for a new open door. A temporal transition allows for a spiritual transformation that we might return to simplicity in heart and singularity of vision to remember all that God has taught us and accomplished for us under His sovereign hand.
When we come to a change, we must remember the charge that God has already given to us. In other words, when we do not know something, we must fall back on what we do know.
We are spiritual pilgrims passing through this life and going through various seasons for God-ordained reasons and we must learn to let God write our story and lead us to new pastures. The walk of faith is a pilgrimage from one place of blessing to another. For..."Your statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage" (Ps. 119:54).
Whether it was Abraham being asked to leave his former life with his family in his homeland to a place that he did not yet know or Philip being asked where he was going to buy enough bread to feed the multitudes, we need to TRUST GOD into the unknown to expect Him to do what He already knows He will do. This may be hard for us but this is precisely what brings forth the good works that only He can do in and through our lives.
Think about it...the only difference between a hard place and a good place is the time it takes for God to work it all together.
This is what we learn in Psalm 84 when the psalmist pursues the living God and places all of our trust in Him as they pass through the place of weeping and come out on the other side with springs of joy as they witness what God does and will do for His people. It is interesting that the psalmist sings on the instrument of Gath, where the giants of old were slain...and where the obstacles were replaced by the miracles.
"Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, Whose heart is set on pilgrimage. As they pass through the Valley of Baca ("weeping" - balsam trees), They make it a spring; The rain also covers it with pools." (Psalm 84:5-6).
The Lord already knows. The Lord already sees the ends from the beginnings. Our pilgrimage is a journey of faith that allows us and enables us to see what He already sees and knows that we might be those who go from strength to strength and from glory to glory.
Psalm 65:4-5 says, "Blessed is the man You choose, And cause to approach You,
That he may dwell in Your courts (where even the birds are taken care of). We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, Of Your holy temple. By awesome deeds in righteousness YOU WILL ANSWER US, O God of our salvation, You who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth, And of the far-off seas"
What confidence we ought to have in the providence of God...who leads and guides His people even when we may come to a crossroads where we must cross the waters of our Red Sea and our River Jordan. These are special seasons in our lives that sanctify us, deepen us, and mature us so that we can enter the next season He has prepared and purposed for us.
Psalm 77 reminds us that we must cry out to God in the day of trouble but we must also trust Him to make a way when there doesn't seem to be a way:
"Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary; Who is so great a God as our God?
You are the God who does wonders; You have declared Your strength among the peoples.
"Your way was in the sea, Your path in the great waters, And Your footsteps were not known.
You led Your people like a flock By the hand of Moses and Aaron." (Ps. 77:13-14, 19-20)
When God is showing us His way, all that is left for us to do is to TRUST and OBEY.
So let us...
PURSUE the living God!
PRAISE Him for His past faithfulness!
PREPARE for the good plans to come!
For when all is said and done, we will BE LED and we will HAVE WON!
"O LORD of hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in You!" (Psalm 84:12)
For Further Reflection:
1. What are you facing personally or collectively that requires you to fully trust the Lord?
2. When a change or transition seems inevitable, what are ways that you can simplify your life and take each step of faith with a new pursuit, praise, and preparation?
3. If God were to give you what you wanted, what would you do with it that would bring Him glory?
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