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Trusting God

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With all the stuff that we experience, problems we face, and victories that seem unattainable, it’s not easy sometimes to trust God. There are some really tough things that we must work through, that seem to make no sense at all (as to why “it” happened), and “when” it will get better. Not unlike yourself, I’ve experienced some killer ordeals, and have also in those trials found it hard to trust God at times. But from those experiences I can say with absolute sincerity trusting God is worth it. I don’t want to or mean to get flip about it, I know it’s hard. Life is hard-but the reward to a life of Faithfullness is worth it, it pays dividends well ahead of our eternity with Christ. That means taking the hard with the good, and understanding His purpose in events He allows to happen are Good and for our “better-ment”. (a related post sometime in the future will discuss the theory I hold on the Curses and Blessing cycle, as evidenced in Romans.)

As I’ve read thus far what I’ve written, I feel it’s pertinant to remind us HE GAVE US HIS SON, how can we forget how much He loves us? I’m sure we all have things in our past that we’ve dealt with that showed us the benefit of trusting Him. Profound now my circumstances: I’m trusting Him to bring Mini-Dixon (my/our first child) soon as a healthy and happy (ultimately) child of God, and that Jessica will go through her first labor-experience without worse-case-scenario ever coming close to reality. This is something my past trials have “geared”me up for as I have the faith He is not going to cause/allow anything bad to happen; yet in that, if He does allow something to happen that is not what we’re hoping for I can trust He’s doing something with it, for my closer-growth with Him. Everything has a Purpose, Pastor Warren’s spelled it out pretty clearly in his book Purpose Driven Life and related texts.
There is ample scripture to support Trusting HIM, I’ll link it in another post. For now, one verse on this subject:

“Humble yourselves, therefore,
under the mighty hand of God,
that He may exalt you at the proper time,
casting all your anxiety upon Him,
because He cares for you.”
~1st Peter 5:6-7

“Trust and Obey,
for there’s no other way
to be Happy in Jesus…”

~e

Obedience

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This weekend our friends Sara and Justin gave a presentation on their recent missionary trip to the Far East. They had spent the last 2 years “somewhere” over there, and talked about what their core-mission was while there: teaching obedience to God’s Word.
As I’ve spent the last day-or-so pondering this, I’ve found it interesting the simple obedience idea that gets fogged-over or forgotton as we go about our lives, supposedly “doing His work”, and fail to obey Scripture in even the littlest of things. Are we truthful all the time? Are we honest and upright when it comes to office-supplies that make it home with us “cause they won’t miss them”? The fact we’re driving over the speed-limit far more often than we should, those cameras in the school-zones be darned? I am not above reproach here, as I’m speaking from my own past and present experiences. If you’re convicted, great, what are you going to do about it? Get mad and post a harsh reply? I’d rather you ask for His strength and wisdom as you go about your day, and ask for forgiveness as you confess the error of your ways and seek to avoid temptation by His power.
The “stickler” for me as I dwell on this obedience topic, is: what am I doing that supports my response to Jesus’ commission of me, His ambassador to my circle of influence? Am I showing love to all, praying for my enemies, looking for His hand at work so that I may join Him and be His voice?