So this idea of trust has been on my mind all week and I have to write about it. Trust. What is it and how do we do it? Dictionary.com says this:
Trust
1. reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
2. confident expectation of something; hope.
I just keep thinking "Trust Him. Trust Him. Trust Him." But how do I do that? How do I trust in someone I can't see? I can think it with my head. "Ok, Lord. I trust you!" But how do I get that connected with my heart? I read some of Romans last night and here is what I came across:
Romans 4: 1-5
1-3 So how do we fit what we know of Abraham, our first father in the faith, into this new way of looking at things? If Abraham, by what he did for God, got God to approve him, he could certainly have taken credit for it. But the story we're given is a God-story, not an Abraham-story. What we read in Scripture is, "Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his own."
4-5If you're a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; we don't call your wages a gift. But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it's something only God can do, and you trust him to do it—you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked—well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift.
I guess if I think it, say it and walk it I will believe it. I should just start repeating "I trust you Lord" so that it gets into my soul, deep down.
Another area I need to set some focus on is to stop looking at my husband and his actions. That is looking at the flesh and when we get into the flesh we are disappointed, scared, afraid and hopeless. Stop looking at what he is doing and refocus on what God is doing and what he has promised me.
Hebrews 12:2 says:
2 Let us keep looking to Jesus. He is the author of faith. He also makes it perfect. He paid no attention to the shame of the cross. He suffered there because of the joy he was looking forward to. Then he sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Focus my thoughts and my eyes on Jesus and the joy that I am looking forward to when my husband comes back to me and we begin healing our marriage.
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