TRUST IS A MUST

Have you thanked Him?

Have you praised Him?

Have you made it your priority to agree and cooperate with Him today?

Have you taken that deep breath and listened for what He has for you today?

1 Timothy 2:1 (The Message)

The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.

de Chardin remarked that we should:

“Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

That...

We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. 

We should like to skip the intermediate stages.

We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability—and that it may take time.”

But 

Psalm 18:30 (NIV)

As for God, his way is perfect: The LORD's word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.

GOD’S way, regardless of long it takes and or how unstable it appears or feel, is always perfect.

Always.

And the Psalmist reminds that the LORD’S Word is flawless and we can trust it; that any danger along the way has been accounted for and protection and provision provided.

GOD’S way is safe.

GOD’S way is trustworthy.

GOD’S way is true.

But I have to be honest, this “intermediate” stage I am in right now, this waiting for “what is truly next” is causing impatience and apprehension in me.  I fear “jumping the gun”, I fear stepping outside the “perfect path” due to haste, I fear it is going to take too long and I don’t have the time!

Yet Psalm 46:10 says, “Cease striving and know that I am God.” (NASB)

I don’t know about you, but I have never had much success trying to marshal something or someone around while attempting to trust them simultaneously. Trying to be in control and relinquishing control at the same time just doesn’t work; they can’t co-exist inside the same heart.

That much is true.

So if GOD’S way is perfect, then simple TRUST is a MUST even when that seems almost impossible.

For:

“The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise.”  ― Brennan Manning

GOD HAS afforded His presence to all of us this morning.  And perhaps you like me are being challenged to TRUST in the promise of His perfect path, His way when there seems no way, and His flawless Word.

The question is will we be patient?

Will we trust the process?

Will we make TRUST A MUST?

Love you all…

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