Trust is a heart thing. It's a head thing too.
It's dependent upon what our hearts and minds are focused on, what they are looking to for hope, for peace, for answers.
When we are looking to our circumstances and things make sense and they are going as we think they should, we have a false security. As soon as the circumstances change, the false footing we were standing on crumbles under our feet.
How do we remain standing when everything crumbles?...when nothing makes sense...it just doesn't seem right.
I know what it's like...
I lost my dad to cancer just a month before my 17th birthday...and I loved him more than I can say.
God asked me to give up the love of my life as a sacrifice to Him in order to pursue His calling on my life...this was harder than you can imagine (as you can see He graciously gave him back to me).
After spending my life (our lives) pursuing His calling to serve on the mission field, He changed the course.
I've watched while friends have lost babies or can not conceive while I have had 8 healthy pregnancies.
...Sometimes, things just don't make sense.
And then there are the everyday hardships... when the kids won't stop fighting, the carefully planned schedule for the day falls apart, the house is a wreck, and I don't like the mom I'm being.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5-6
The heart and the mind...trusting and leaning on Him, not on what makes sense to us.
Our minds must be intensely focused on Him in every circumstance,
- In all your ways acknowledge Him...(Prov. 3:7) -
recognizing Him in everything that happens. Believing in every. single. circumstance. that...
He is all wise.
He is all knowing.
He is in complete control.
He is working all of this for my good.
He is here with me.
....and with this comes a promise -
And he will make straight your paths. (Prov. 3:6)
He will make it all work out....He will make the crooked things straight. It all makes sense to Him because He sees what we cannot see. It is all part of His perfect plan....to work everything out for His glory and our good.
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28
Trust = Peace
Yes, trust is a heart thing, and a mind thing too.
Philippians 4:6 describes it like this-
Do not be anxious about anything (mind), but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving (heart & mind) let your requests be made known to God. (parenthesis added)
This is what TRUST looks like. It's what trust DOES.
Chooses not to worry.
Prays instead.
Gives thanks for it all.
And the result....
And the PEACE of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:7)
Wow! When we practice TRUST with all our hearts and our minds, our loving Father then wraps our hearts and minds with his PEACE - which is His protection...
...protection from falling when everything around us crumbles.
We are safe in the embrace of His PEACE, our eyes locked with His.
"Yes, Jesus, I trust you," is all our hearts can say...finally at rest in His arms.
Such LOVE is ours to experience! Such PEACE!
And it's not just for special moments. No, it's for every moment.
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. Isaiah 26:3
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Do you know this kind of peace? Do you know this kind of trust? Simply look to Jesus, my friend. This is not something we can produce ourselves. It comes from an intimate relationship with Him. Run to Him, fall on your face before Him...get to know Him. He's wonderful...and He loves you.
If you've experienced this kind of peace and trust, please share your experience with the rest of us (in the comments) so that we can all be encouraged by what God has done for you!
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