Ultimate Trust

Trust.

When you see that word, what do you think about?

Yesterday I was asking God to help me trust Him with a situation. My husband and I have not gone out to make friends for a couple of years now, literally. We haven't tried, we haven't wanted to. Facebook and Twitter has been the limit to our "friends." We have reasons, ones I don't feel the necessity to go into great detail about. But I'll just say this, we allowed ourselves to trust people and were in turn, broken down by people judging us, shutting us out, turning on us, forgetting us, etc. Before I go further, I do want to say that we understand people are human. People make mistakes, as we do too! But for us, we felt for the time being, we needed to heal, recover, and figure out our priorities.

So we finally found a church we like and might have found a Life Group we could give a try. We haven't been to a Life Group for a while now. So it feels a bit like stepping out onto the water, and into an unknown experience.

When I started thinking about going to a Life Group, my initial reaction was to draw-back and clam up. My human reaction is to run...far, far away and just not give it a chance. But then I prayed. This is what Jesus spoke to me.

"Why don't you just trust Me and let Me guide you? Give it a chance."

Then I felt Him remind me of His death, burial and resurrection. I didn't make the connection immediately. But bear with me while I share what He revealed. You might have already "gotten" this a long time ago, but it really struck home to me yesterday.

When Jesus went to die, he was fully God, yet fully man. The reason he was fully man was because God wanted us to have reassurance that we could live this life on earth and still be pleasing to Him. He allowed Jesus to go through all temptations, and helped Him overcome, so we could see that we also, could go through temptations and overcome. Can you imagine this? Jesus was fully man. So he must've had the same fears we would have if we knew that we were going to die. Fear of pain. Fear of death. Fear of the unknown. Would God really raise Him up from the dead? Why couldn't he just die the way everyone else does?

But He chose to trust his Father. He chose to trust that if God told him He would raise him from the dead, then He would keep His word. He chose to believe in the power of One who was over the whole world and didn't doubt. He knew. He had that confident, deep seeded trust in his Father. May be a weird example, but he had the type of trust you have when you put a pot of water on the stove, turn the heat up on high and leave it for a while. You know when you come back 10-15 minutes later, that water is going to be boiling. That is the type of trust Jesus had when he was nailed to the cross and died. His father promised He would rise again, more alive than ever, in 3 days.

So when I was thinking about making friends and stepping out of my comfort zone, and God reminded me of His death and resurrection, I realized I could trust His guiding. I could trust Him to lead me through anything.

How can you trust God more than to trust Him with your very life? Jesus did it! He laid the ground work. He walked this earth as a man to show us how to trust and how to believe. Stepping out of the boat may take a lot out of you. You may be shaky. You may be scared. But don't be. Jesus stepped out and died for us. He showed His explicit trust in the same God that we serve today. God kept His promises back 2000 years ago. He will keep His promises today, tomorrow and forever.