5 Comments to 'Trusting in My Father'
Subscribe to comments with RSS
:: Trackbacks/Pingbacks ::
No Trackbacks/Pingbacks
Trusting in My Father
Posted By Kathleen
 |
|---|
I am currently reading “The True Nature of God” by Andrew Womack. The introduction grabbed me from the beginning and today I found myself thinking back on a particular paragraph.
“A minister friend of mine once said that as he carried his little girl around, she never has to say, “I confess with my mouth and believe in my heart that my dad will not drop me. And I confess with my mouth and believe in my heart that my dad’s going to feed me.” For that daughter, there is no striving to believe her father is going to be good to her. She just rests and relaxes in her loving relationship with him. She knows he is going to take care of her, because she knows him and his character.”
I have been pondering this for quite sometime and I wonder why don’t people “rest” in the knowledge that God loves us, provides for us, is there for us, claims us as his child and friend?
I think for many of us, we too often compare our earthly relationships with our heavenly Father. I know I have had that problem. If you are/were abused, betrayed, abandoned, neglected or any number of hurtful things, it is hard to believe, to put your faith and trust completely in someone you have never seen and most likely don’t really know that well.
“But I do know Him!” you might say. Do you really? The only way to truly know the Father is to spend time with Him and in our rushed and stressful lives our Heavenly Father more often than not receives our crumbs: a quick prayer at supper, a thankful prayer at bedtime.
“As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him”. Psalm 18:30
We are given a precious, precious book that the Lord wrote just for you and me. How much time do we spend reading and learning the true nature of God? How much time do we spend chatting with the Father? How much time do we truly spend in His presence just listening, just being washed over with His love?
I cannot answer those questions for you but I can say if you truly want to be like that little girl who just rests and relaxes in her Father’s arms, spend time with Him. Get to know Him more each day. If you do then when calamity happens (and it will happen) you can be like Job and say,
“Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him.” Job 13:15
I am purposing in my life to spend more time with my Lord and Savior, my Father and Friend. I want to completely and unconditionally trust Him with all my heart, soul and spirit.
I was pondering how much I trust my husband. We have been together 23 years and I trust Him with my very life. Should I not trust my heavenly Father so much more?
“Having faith in anyone means developing your relationship with them to the point where you know them so well, you just completely trust them.” Andrew Womack.
I have really been examining my heart on this matter and I had to answer some pretty tough questions such as if I am in a jam or rut who do I run to? Who do I call? What is my reaction, one of faith and trust or one of stress and panic?
Check your heart today. Ask the Lord to help you. Tell Him you want to know Him more intimately. Can you imagine just how happy that will make Him? He longs for you to know Him. Ask yourself some tough questions and then purpose to spend more time with your heavenly Father and trust in him.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13
Oct 3rd, 2007
hi kathleen. reading this raised a question in my mind that i need to ask God about. thank you for sharing about trust. God bless you.
Kathleen, the Lord has been speakng the same thing to me. Father, help us to be still and know that you are God!
This is making me cry. Faith. Trust. I desperately want to get it back. I really do. But I will be dishonest if I say that everything is ok (with regards to faith I mean). I know I should spend more time with God if I want to have the closeness I knew before. But though i KNOW where to start i find myself not doing anything. Most days I despair and just try to forget. Bury it all in the busyness of everyday life. Faith lifts. But what if there is almost no faith left except the faith that he’s still there even though i am faithless?
Kathleen, thanks for this great post. It reminds me of a book I read recently, “The Bible Jesus Read” by Philip Yancey. Mr. Yancey tells why the Old Testament is important because it was the only scriptures that Jesus knew. But Chapter 2 is incredibly eye-opening. He makes a good case of showing that the book of Job was not about Job’s suffering, but about his faith in God. Job kept his faith in spite of his anger with God; and in spite of the fact that he didn’t understand why he was having so many trials when he felt he was innocent. But in spite of that fact, Job kept his faith in God. Wow! What an inspiration Job was. I also read a poem once that also concerns trusting God. It described life as a large tapestry, and from ‘down here’ we can only see the ugly under-side, the messy, loose, broken, and damaged loose ends - not the unfolding picture. God sees the picture ‘up top’ as it’s being completed bit by bit - and He sees where it’s all headed - towards that final, beautiful picture, when every thing falls into the right places. I hope you get to read the book. Thanks, Kathleen for the reminder about spending more time with God. I definitely am going to do that. I want to know Him so well that I’m ‘with Him’ all day long.
ymld2opi0lmsgann