Having Trouble Trusting God?
We can’t really trust Him until we KNOW Him! Really know Him, know His heart, His likes, His dislikes. There is no other way. I want to trust Him explicitly…I know there is tremendous peace in doing so.
We were created to be in the center of God’s love and purpose. He created us to be there, right in the middle of His entire plan, loving us, talking to us, laughing and crying with us. I can’t explain how wonderful that thought is! I long so much to be able to live in the present, eagerly anticipating each day as an opportunity to know Him, to trust Him, to love Him. I so desperately want to stay away from my limited human concepts of what I should or shouldn’t be doing…only to be open to His guidance and to embrace every moment with joy.
Here is an excerpt from “The Shack”, a conversation between Mack and Jesus.
Jesus, “Mack, do you realize that your imagination of the future, which is almost always dictated by fear of some kind, rarely, if ever, pictures me there with you?”
“Why do I do that?” asks Mack.
“It is your desperate attempt to get some control over something you can’t. It is impossible for you to take power of the future because it isn’t even real. You try and play God, imagining the evil that you fear becoming reality, and then you try and make plans and contingencies to avoid what you fear.”
Mack asked, “So why do I have so much fear in my life?”
Jesus replied, “Because you don’t believe. You don’t know that we love you. The person who lives by their fears will not find freedom in my love. I am not talking about rational fears regarding legitimate dangers, but imagined fears, and especially the projection of those into the future. To the degree that those fears have a place in your life, you neither believe that I am good nor know deep in your heart that I love you. You sing about it, you talk about it, but you don’t know it.”
The answer is simple…know Him, love Him, believe Him, trust Him.
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