We are all called to trust; to live abandoned to ourselves and walk blindly following Him into greater things than we could ever imagine.
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 it’s roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes, for it’s leaves
remain green, and is not anxious in the year of
drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.
Jeremiah 17:7-8
I was thinking about this, this morning, what it means to trust God and for your trust to be God. I still can’t fully grasp what it means for your trust to BE the Lord.
He is our dad and he calls us to bigger and better things. He calls us to live and be MORE. And it all starts with trust. Trusting him with everything is no easy concept; as man we are so used to people letting us down in everyday life it is hard to wrap our minds around the idea of putting our trust fully in someone and them not letting us down.
As I was thinking about it this morning, I came to the conclusion that sometimes it’s easier to trust God on a grander scale than trust him with the details.
Before moving to Kenya, I found myself being challenged by God to trust him with my future and turn down a job offer I had for when I returned home. He is calling me to MORE. Although making the final decision to trust God was not easy, I know in my heart that he has something better for me. But it’s trusting him with the details that seems harder.
I now find myself surrounded by teammates making plans for college and enrolling in classes and I sit unsure of what my future holds. I feel like a little bird that had the faith to jump out of the nest but as it falls it wonders where the ground is, if it’s there and how it is going to land.
How do we have the faith to trust God to open the door wide for us but we struggle to believe that he will provide the steps down from the door for us?
It only makes sense that if God calls us from something he will provide something else and when he opens a door for us he will provide what is needed to not only enter the door but succeed in it too. It only makes sense yes! But there is a disconnect between our heads and our hearts that often stops us from truly believing it and living it out.
That’s why a baby doesn’t begin by running but by sitting and then crawling. God doesn’t call us to jump off the mountain before we have trusted him enough to climb up it first. None of it is easy, but we learn from each step and he knows when we are ready to jump off the ledge, even when we don’t think we are.
All we have to do it TRUST him.
