Another View of Trust

Another View of Trust

This picture speaks to me on so many levels.  How about you?

We can become attached to so many ‘things’ and ideas and people and ways of living. 

And yet God is standing before us and continually says, “TRUST ME.”

That girl I nearly married … God said “not her.  Trust me.”  And He sent Carolyn.

That job I thought would be the end of all jobs … God said “no. Not that one.  I have something better for you.”  And He sent job after job, in time, on time, every time.

We (and I’m including myself in that) think we need so much stuff, or whatever the next new gadget or relationship or job is that comes along.  I think, in part, that we have been taught to be discontent, to always reach for more. 

Where is happiness?  Where is ‘content with what we have’?

Carolyn is in Zambia right now visiting an organization called ACE (Alliance for Children Everywhere).  We contribute to their ministry and CB does an occasional free-lance project for them.  On our conversation yesterday, she was in tears as she was telling me what she has been seeing. 

We get upset if our internet connection is disrupted for ten seconds.  She saw home after home with no electricity.  She saw home after home with no running water.  She saw ladies with maybe two dresses to their name, most were barefooted. 

They weren’t complaining.  They were laughing, smiling.  They had joy.

At one point on her journey, she was deep into a poverty-stricken area and she saw a gathering of twenty or so ladies.  They were laughing and singing, clapping their hands and having a ‘Happy’ in the middle of their mess.  They didn’t know what you and I know.  They couldn’t relate to the abundance most of us enjoy here in America and other parts of this world. 

They were simply infested with the ‘happies’. 

I think they continually discover these wise words:

CB attended a Zambian church service this morning.  I anxiously await her report on that. 

This I know, God can be trusted, regardless of any situation in which we find ourselves.

Perhaps … perhaps we need less ‘stuff’ and more trust in the God who supplies all our needs.

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A Little More Trust-A Little Less Trash Talk

A Little More Trust – A Little Less Trash Talk

When we take a historical view, and read the end times chapters of our Bibles, perhaps we see the need to trust God more and trash talk less.  If my social media feeds are any indicator of anything, it appears to me that people are scared, afraid, terrified, distrustful, and we as a world are going to hell in a hand-basket (I still don’t know what that one means).

Instead, God continually says TRUST ME!

One of my favorites is Joshua 1:9

“Have I not commanded you? Be strong, be courageous. Do not be afraid; do not get discouraged, for I your God will be with you wherever you go.”

In plain sight God tells us – “trust.  I’ve got this.”

Psalm 20”7

“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.”

Put another way, “some like guns and uranium supplies, and chemical weapons that wreak havoc.  However, we trust in our God.”

And in Psalm 56:3

“When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.”

The word for this week …

Trust

Lean

Cling to

Seek refuge in God!

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We Just Need to Bloom

We Just Need to Bloom

I hate smug Christianity.  You know … “my God’s better than your God, and I’m a better stripe of Christian than you are.” 

Ouch!

And I wonder what God thinks of that kind of attitude? 

I’m not the brightest bulb in the socket.  I’m flying through

life with gusts up to 80 mph, and I sometimes make a misstep, even a mistake. 

And God loves me anyway. 

I’m not out to impress anyone these days.  I’m not out to be a show-off of my spirituality or do a one-up on anybody. 

My job is to be ME.  I just want to bloom where I’m planted, and allow you all the room you need to bloom as well.

I don’t have a monopoly on God or how God works or in whom God works.  I just want to do my part in this big ole’ world.

I think God has given me a mission to spread hope and encouragement through writing and speaking.  So that is what I do. 

What is your place in this world?

There’s room for both of us.

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