The most
horrific events of life harmonize the juxtaposition of what it means to trust
in God. Without challenges that threaten
our natural desires to trust God, we would not truly know what trust in God
really means.
Men who
thought they fully trusted in God cried out against Jesus as He hung on the
cross: He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him
(Matthew 27:43). Indeed everything about
how and why and where He was on the cross was demonstrating His complete trust
in God.
No doubt
those who trust in God will continue to be ridiculed and questioned about their
foolish faith. Yet trust in God requires
faith in what we cannot see.
Trust in
God will be required of every soul that seeks to know Him and be set free from the
trap of sin. Trust in God is what is
called out of us in order to partake in the hope, joy and peace that He longs
to give.
Romans 15:13 says: May the
God of hope fill you with all
joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with
hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The action required here is trust in God. We are not asked to trust in people, trust in
money, trust in government, rather the direction is clear—trust in God and you
will be filled with hope, joy, peace and the Holy Spirit.
Why is it so hard to trust in
God? It’s easy to overlook a need to
trust in God. Most of us aren’t even
aware that we have stopped trusting in Him.
Julian of Norwich summarizes what utter trust in God really means:
In spite of our poor choices and spiritual
blindness in this life our courteous Lord continues to love us. We will bring
him the most pleasure if we rejoice with him and in him.
When the end comes and we are taken
for judgment above, we will then clearly understand in God the mysteries that
puzzle us now. Not one of us will think to say, Lord, if it had been some other
way, all would be well.
We shall all say in unison, Lord ,
bless you because it is all the way it is.
It is well. Now we can honestly
see that everything is done as you intended; you planned it before anything was
ever made.
Indeed that is what trust in God is
really about. When I read this quote
from Julian of Norwich I am reminded of that moment described in Revelation 16
when the angel has poured the third of the
Seven Bowls of Wrath, all heaven responded: Yes,
Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments (Revelation 16:7).
Trust in God is most fully
experienced in the midst of our greatest heartaches. It is only in those times that we learn where
our trust really lies.
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