We say, we love the Lord but we questioned his plan for our lives when we decide, we know better and become disobedient. We struggle with the experiences we go through, or fight with the submission required to rise; all because we do not trust. Yes, I said trust, it is something we all struggle with because we desire to be in the knowing. However, let us be honest, if God showed us what we would have, or would have to go through, we would be no darn good for nobody!...
We say, I love the Lord, and he heard my cry but we fail to trust him because He does not see things, like we see things. He does not subscribe to the ideology, we find palatable and appropriate. Yet, we are asked over and over again, do you trust me while you love me? We for some reason think trusting and loving are synonymous; it is not, but it should be. See, loving someone means to have an affection shown toward someone, while trusting is the confidence in the person certainty to do the thing s/he say they will…Hmmmm that is GOD!…Now, we love God but we do not trust God because if we did, we would not start wondering if he would really provide, and does what is best for us, and our good before we seek his advice. We would not try to do His job, or correct His plan for us, or chastise his children because he was not timely enough for us. God is never late, but He does not work on our time. Although, we know this when the thing is happening to another person, we forget it when it is happening to us. Yet, we are quick to repeat these verses in the bible without understanding what they mean – Hab. 2:3 - …Though it linger, wait for it…Jer. 29:11-… For I know the plans I have for you… Psalm 139:13 - … you knit me together in my mother's womb…-; Job 31:15-… Did not he who made me in the womb make them…- ; and Jer. 1:5 -… before you were born I set you apart…..So, the next time you say, Lord I love you, check yourself and see if you are just loving on God, or have you really relied on him to do just what He said; even the day is hard, the vision is week, the wounds are fresh, the struggle is excruciating, and you are in a wasteland experience…just remember and back on this….2 Cor. 12-7-10 ‘Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me--to keep me from exalting myself! Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness " Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong (NASB).
