Often I have written about our trust in God. How it really is a must in order to say that we have faith in God. It's really is hard to say you trust anything that you don't have faith in. And it's hard to say you have faith in anything you don't trust. But when you say you have faith in God, does your trust have limits?
Throughout the history of mankind there have been times when God was fully trusted, and there have been times when people put limits on how much they trusted Him. When Moses led the Israelite's out of bondage God showed them that He was fully trustworthy, but He also showed them that He was fully sovereign. And it is one thing to put our trust in things that can still fail us, but it is an entirely different thing to put our trust in a God who is sovereign. Sovereign, by the dictionary's definition means "supreme power or authority". So by it's very definition there really isn't anything on this earth we can put our trust in the way we should God, but sometimes we still doubt. I'm not pointing that out to make anyone feel bad. It's our nature to doubt. It is the one thought or emotion that the enemy tries to play us with the most. It's the thing we have to fight through when things look dim around us, and it's the thing that we can beat with HOPE. And as it says in Hebrews 11:1, "Faith is the confidence in what we hope for...". God knew we would face doubt, and that is why He gave us faith and hope, to beat doubt. But He also gave us something else, His sovereignty. You see God is the supreme power and authority over everything. And if there was ever any doubt in that, then He proved it when Jesus beat death. That is one of the reasons that the story of Jesus is so important. Not only does it show us just how much God loved us, but it also shows us just how powerful God is. Sadly enough that's something that is often forgotten in today's times. But again, we are not the first people to do this. If you go back to the Israelite people, they too forgot how to fully trust God. And they just got done watching him split the sea open so they could walk across it. They watched Him send down food from the sky for them to live off of. And they watched Him put a cloud and fire in the sky to guide them on their journey, but they allowed a place for doubt to come in. And because He is sovereign, God allowed them to wonder around for 40 years before they received His gift to them. They lost the vision that what He promised them was going to be far better than what they had. They complained and talked about going back to where they came from because they we losing trust in Him. Does this sound familiar? Haven't we all done this at one time or another in our life. Wondering where God is taking us, and IF it will be better than where He brought us from. Like God would ever take us to something worse.....He doesn't do that. We do, we will take control and lead ourselves down paths we were never intended to go down, but again and again God will pick us up, dust us off, and put us back on the right path. A sovereign God who truly could do whatever He wanted with us, but He chooses to show us grace, mercy and love in our moments of ignorance or weakness.
We can't forget that we serve a sovereign God. We can't allow circumstances, heartache, and the evil and cruelness of this world to cause us to shift our thoughts to something other than His goodness and his sovereignty. He sees what we cannot see. He knows what we do not know. And He can do what we cannot do. And that is exactly why trusting Him is the wisest thing we can do, no matter what the circumstances tell us.
I don't know about you, but when I know that I have the ability to put all of must trust in an all powerful God, then that is exactly where I want it. You would never invest your money is something that was sure to fail, so don't do the same thing with your faith and trust. Invest it in God and leave it there. Just like a good financial investment, it has to mature and be left alone so it can increase. If you play the stock market you don't go yank your money out every single time things look rough. You have to ride it out and wait for things to look better again. Well again, if we can do that with our money, then lets do that with our faith. Put it ALL in God, and leave it invested there. Let it grow, let it mature and let God do things that only God can do. THEN, go tell others about every good thing that comes from that so you can help someone else do the same.
God, I can't thank You enough for being a trustworthy, faithful and sovereign God. I repent for any time I have allowed my own thoughts to convince me that I should put my trust in myself or anything else this world has to offer. Holy Spirit help us to tell others about how trustworthy and good you are, but not just with our words, but by the actions of our lives. In Jesus name, Amen
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