“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.” (Jeremiah 17:7-8)
If we are going to trust God we must jump in with both feet. We must untie the boat from the pier. We must jump from the airplane without a parachute. Yes, this is a faith walk, “There ain’t no half steppin’.” The word, TRUST rings loud with synonyms: faith, confidence, and reliability. There is little more frustrating than having someone ask you to do something and when you don’t perform it fast enough, and just the way they imagined, they snatch it back from you, “Let me have it, I’ll do it.” That’s a sign of control, the inability to let go and trust. This is similar to what we do with our Lord and Savior. We can be impatient and impertinent. “True trust in Christ is an entire reliance upon him. This day, if you trust Christ, you rest the whole weight and stress of your soul’s affairs upon him. Looking at your sin and your sinfulness, looking at the past, the present, and the future, looking at death and at judgment, you deliberately believe that Christ is equal to every emergency, and you just cast yourself entirely and without reserve upon him to save you, and to keep you saved forever. No other trust is worth a pin except this. It must be an absolute severance from all reliance upon your past merit, or upon your present resolutions, or upon your future expectations of what you shall be or shall do. You must have done with all other trust if Christ is your confidence. Your motto must be, ‘Jesus only.’” Charles Spurgeon I pray that today is the day that we stop living life on the shore, we jump on board and set sail. If we give it to God, we have to trust Him. We cannot snatch it back because He’s not moving fast enough or it does not look the way we want it to. It’s time to let go and TRUST in the Lord. GiGi
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Timothy Hinkle
5/31/2024 12:12:11 pm
Excellent post, thank you very much!!!
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