Trust God, love people. My help and glory are in God—granite-strength and safe-harbor-God—So trust him absolutely, people; lay your lives on the line for him. God is a safe place to be. Psalm 62:7-8 (Message). Trusting God frees us to love people. In my opinion you can't love people if you don't love Christ first. Our lives can be filled with so many worries, our breathes are tightened with anxiety, we worry about paying off student loans, cars problem, insurance, babies, etc...Only if we would trust. Only if we would take God at his word. What freedom trusting Christ brings.
One things we often forget is that trusting Christ isn't a one time thing. You don't walk down the isle the one time, or say the prayer asking God into your heart and trusting him with our life. It isn't a one time thing. It isn't a single moment or a single day. Trusting Christ is the backbone of Christianity. It must be something that happens on a daily basis, hourly basis really. We must realizes that this fight of faith, trusting God for all that we need is how Christians make it in this life. Sure God offers the abundant life, John 10:10. But how many of us truly experience it. I believe the freedom that comes from trusting Christ allows us to have the childlike freedom that we all enjoy when we are kids. That feeling of effortless enjoyment, the kind of joy that you see when a child is mesmerized with a coloring book and crayons, or a single push in a swing.
How do we give God the glory? Trust him. How do we show others Christ? Trust him. How do we love God. Trust him. Continually trusting God with our daily needs shows the power and might of his promises.
The promises happen no matter what. But most of the time we go through everything so fast, under so much worry and everything still happens the way God wants it to, because of his sovereignty. Isaiah 44:6-7 God, King of Israel, your Redeemer, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, says: "I'm first, I'm last, and everything in between. I'm the only God there is. Who compares with me? Speak up. See if you measure up.From the beginning, who else has always announced what's coming? So what is coming next? Anybody want to venture a try? Don't be afraid, and don't worry: Haven't I always kept you informed, told you what was going on? You're my eyewitnesses: Have you ever come across a God, a real God, other than me? There's no Rock like me that I know of." We don't experience the freedom that God promises. We don't get to enjoy life like we should. It's a shame that we don't trust the creator and author of our lives. To think that we actually have something to do with how things turn out. If we would only trust him with our life, daily, not just once, we could truly love people. What freedom it takes to love people and not be so consumed with ourselves.
We can't receive the glory, nor should we if we trust Christ. He receives the glory, we receive the gift. We should nor can we act like we had anything to do with it.
"Faith, without trouble or fighting, is a suspicious faith; for true faith is a fighting, wrestling faith."
RALPH ERSKINE
"It is a sure mark of grace to desire more."
ROBERT MURRAY MCCHEYNE
One things we often forget is that trusting Christ isn't a one time thing. You don't walk down the isle the one time, or say the prayer asking God into your heart and trusting him with our life. It isn't a one time thing. It isn't a single moment or a single day. Trusting Christ is the backbone of Christianity. It must be something that happens on a daily basis, hourly basis really. We must realizes that this fight of faith, trusting God for all that we need is how Christians make it in this life. Sure God offers the abundant life, John 10:10. But how many of us truly experience it. I believe the freedom that comes from trusting Christ allows us to have the childlike freedom that we all enjoy when we are kids. That feeling of effortless enjoyment, the kind of joy that you see when a child is mesmerized with a coloring book and crayons, or a single push in a swing.
How do we give God the glory? Trust him. How do we show others Christ? Trust him. How do we love God. Trust him. Continually trusting God with our daily needs shows the power and might of his promises.
The promises happen no matter what. But most of the time we go through everything so fast, under so much worry and everything still happens the way God wants it to, because of his sovereignty. Isaiah 44:6-7 God, King of Israel, your Redeemer, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, says: "I'm first, I'm last, and everything in between. I'm the only God there is. Who compares with me? Speak up. See if you measure up.From the beginning, who else has always announced what's coming? So what is coming next? Anybody want to venture a try? Don't be afraid, and don't worry: Haven't I always kept you informed, told you what was going on? You're my eyewitnesses: Have you ever come across a God, a real God, other than me? There's no Rock like me that I know of." We don't experience the freedom that God promises. We don't get to enjoy life like we should. It's a shame that we don't trust the creator and author of our lives. To think that we actually have something to do with how things turn out. If we would only trust him with our life, daily, not just once, we could truly love people. What freedom it takes to love people and not be so consumed with ourselves.
We can't receive the glory, nor should we if we trust Christ. He receives the glory, we receive the gift. We should nor can we act like we had anything to do with it.
"Faith, without trouble or fighting, is a suspicious faith; for true faith is a fighting, wrestling faith."
RALPH ERSKINE
"It is a sure mark of grace to desire more."
ROBERT MURRAY MCCHEYNE
JTH
