“But blessed is the one who
trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree
planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear
when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit.” Jeremiah 17:7-8
Trust is a funny thing.
For me, I trust someone until they give me a reason not to trust them. Trusting someone we cannot see and have never
met is a very different kind of trust.
Trust in the literal sense is having a firm belief in something or
someone. It is being confident in that
person or thing and relying on it. Can
God truly be trusted? My answer would be
without question a resounding YES, for throughout the entirety of scripture He
has never gone back on His word or broken a promise.
The Lord doesn’t do our bidding like some genie in a
bottle. He knows much better than we
what we are in need of and how and when to administer it. People look at the
goings on around the world and say that God must be mean for allowing such
things to take place and therefore He cannot be trusted at all. We are not
privy to all the details of various situations. We only know what the media
outlets reveal to us. Their bias combined with our own preconceived notions can
give us a skewed understanding of an event.
That doesn’t make God untrustworthy.
Those who think God is mean and unreasonable do not know the Bible, nor
do they know God. It requires
faith. Faith isn’t an experiential
deal. It is quite the opposite. We believe without seeing, tasting, hearing, touching or smelling. Faith is
like entering a dark room without knowing where the light switch is or as Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr once put it: Faith
is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
We have confidence in
the Lord because we trust Him by faith and know He will take good care of us
always. Negative events in this world
are not a reflection of God’s uncaring nature; it is a reflection of man’s
brutality toward their fellow man. God allows these things by virtue of the free
will He’s given each of us. In the end
He will punish those who have used that free will to their own selfish and destructive
gains. In the meantime, throw all your
trust onto the Lord, for He loves and cares for you and has prepared a place
for those who stand for Him in this life.
Until next time, walk with the King and be a blessing!
Dictionary
used: American Heritage®
Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2011 by Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publishing Company.
