Trusting God Should Be Simple
Yes, it should.
Let me tell you something… We make things difficult for ourselves. No one else (or no thing(s)) makes it difficult for you. Our faith in God is dependent on ourselves. This does not mean that God will not follow through when our faith is weak. But we may fail to see what He is doing because if our faith isn’t in Him, than our focus isn’t on Him.
Stop for a moment… breathe…
Another newsflash… it isn’t about you. It never was and it never will be. That sounds harsh. Sorry if you take it that way. But this mentality bring joy for me. Because when it’s not about me and I don’t matter than it makes me think about what does matter. It realigns my focus on Christ. And not just worshiping Him at church and singing and saying ‘Amen!’ as the pastor preaches.
Actually it make me think of blind spots when you drive a car. Scratch that. Not a good example because those blind spots you actually want to see. The blinders I’m thinking of are on race horses. They only have on thing in mind: the goal in front of them. All they know they can do is put one foot hoof in front of the other. Those blinders keep them focused on the prize and not the person horse next to them. Not what color the jockey’s uniform is or who’s closer to the finish line or even who’s behind them. Why can’t they see those things? Because it doesn’t matter. It makes no difference.
I’m sure some people beg to differ with that point, but after reading scripture and Jesus saying to leave your parents and follow Him, I don’t see a reason to worry about the person next to you. Jesus wasn’t isn’t even worried about what your family will think, why should you? If He’s calling you, GO!
Like I said the only person that’s in the way is you. No one else. Don’t get distracted. Yet, while you’re the one that’s stopping you from moving foward, you’re also not important. You don’t need to be needed. But God chooses us to do work for Him.
So remember while you’re at work, that the job you have doesn’t have to do with the skills you have but only because you’ve been blessed with a job. You don’t have a nice car because you’re smart and you make tons of money (which probably isn’t the case in this economy), it isn’t you who earned anything; you don’t deserve anything as a matter of fact. I could get into that another time.
Once again, listen up…
Trusting God is simple because you can’t trust in yourself.
Well said, Marc! Its sooooooo true!
Maureen - December 14th, 2009 at 4:57 pmDitto! This is so very true! When i “trusted” myself, my family ended up in one crazy cult-like church that took us year to get out of and over two years to recover from! Many may see that as a lot of wasted years, but the truth is it can be summed up in what you said: “Trusting God is simple because you can’t trust in yourself.” God gave me just enough rope to almost hang myself and then He gently asked “Will you trust ME now?” Thanks for the encouragement!
donna o - January 12th, 2010 at 10:10 pmWow! Thank you for that Donna!
That’s really encouraging to read. It’s really cool kind of to see that it was the whole family and the family recovering together to get it back to where HE needed you all to be! I’m sure you’re family is much stronger and closer because of it too.
Marc - January 12th, 2010 at 10:33 pmI was SHOCKED at how resilient my children were/are. My husband and I needed to be humble before them and anyone who knows me or him knows how hard that was/is! God gets all the glory. In my flesh I would have chosen to justify my bad choices. he brought me to a point where all i could say was “Oops-my bad!” In the “circle” we were in many of the kids rebel not only against their parents, but also against God and church. it is so very sad. No grace at all. We are all still healing and have a hard time with “church” in the brick and mortor sense, not in the body of Christ sense :0). I saw your post on Maureen’s blog and followed the link. What you said stood out to me so I commented. Those are thoughts one would love to scream from the mountain tops in order to help anyone NOT go down the path of “self trust” :0)!
donna o - January 13th, 2010 at 12:36 amI “found” “Mo” in one of those link to a link moments! If I recall, it may have been through http://www.incourage.com. I have since decided to live in Israel vicariously through her!
donna o - January 13th, 2010 at 7:52 pm