.. Trusting God.. a choice..

It's my Mumpy Day... the day after one's Birthday when you are still pretty special.. adopted by my family about 25 years ago from friends who thought that going from Birthday to "364 days to your next birthday" was just a little too harsh... so there. That's what it is for me today.


Reflecting on yesterday's message, the acceptance of suffering, holding on to one's faith and keeping on going even when the going gets really tough... I was thinking that in order to do this, to have this kind of faith one needs to trust in God...


trust:  reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confident expectation of something; hope.
a person on whom or thing on which one relies: God is my trust.

How do we know that God is trustworthy???

One of my biggest frustrations with "traditional Christians" is that they have this idea of God, a mixture of all the stuff they have heard somewhere that made them form an opinion of God....

If we want to know who God is we need to read His Word, the Bible and study it... it is there where we can find out exactly who He is...

Here are just a few verses that tell us about God's Goodness:

Psalm 23:6

Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

2 Peter 1:3 

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

Psalm 109:21

But you, Sovereign LORD, help me for your name’s sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.

Because God is good all the time, we can trust Him..

Psalm 31:14

But I trust in you, LORD; I say, “You are my God.”
Psalm 52:8
But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever.
Psalm 62:8
Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.
Jer 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Romans 8:28

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

His Word is full of passages that speak about what God has done for His people, and what He promises for us to do...  He already did the biggest thing He could ever do for us, He sent His one and only Son to pay for our sins.... we are reconciled to Him because of that... the moment we believe that He did this for us eternal life with Him begins..

Romans 8:31-32  

If God is for us, who can be against us?  He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

Trusting Him is a choice... knowing Him, His Word will help make that choice, but it is a choice... like so many other things we need to do in this life, we might never do it if we wait for "feeling like" it...
Proverbs 3:5+6 says this:

Trust in the LORD with all your heart 

and lean not on your own understanding;

in all your ways submit to him, 

 and he will make your paths straight.
 

So what are you waiting for????