TRUST

What a difficult thing to do is to trust… Trust it seems elusive, but only because there is but few times the demand is for it… Surely one can seemingly manufacture another alternative, but when that crashes… Well, you know that’s when trust is all you can do, and that conclusion is only after the mess… Then trust you will… It’s here when trust isn’t hard because that is when you realize that is all you got.

Ask Abraham and Sarah if it was hard to trust… It surely must have been when what little patience they had was gone and Sarah seeing in her mind, hey my time is running out… When your 90 years of age and the promise is yet to appear there surely must be an alternative plan somewhere…

God must have made a mistake, or I heard wrong, because it’s not a normal thing for a 90 year old woman to be having a baby… That isn’t hard to discern when nobody else within your life time has given birth at 90 years of age…

But after the mess that she with Abraham’s agreement made… War had come to Abraham’s house… Nobody was happy anymore… Hagar was evicted along with baby Ishmael… Hagar believed she was going to die along with her baby… Ishmael was crying for thirst… Sarah was crying and blaming Abraham for messing things  up… I’m sure too that GOD was in the mix of all that blame as well…

Trust …

I like what Corrie ten Boom said, “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

That is sometime easier said than done when and if your in the shoes like a Sarah and Abraham…

But isn’t that exactly the way of it???

 

The word of GOD gives us hope in that we can trust HIM…

Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.   

When GOD gives us a way out, and a way into where HE sees us and wants us… HE gives us the means to reach the whatever and the wherever…

This is all about trust… Life is a measure of or a count of moments and memories we all remember… How many days have passed without significance… Many, more than we can count… But the memories of the moments accumulated and tallied at the end are and will be moments of where trust was the thing that comes shining in our faces…

Moments of when there was no way but stand on the word of GOD… Like Job…

Job 23:8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Is that awesome about Job… He trusts GOD when he’s tried to find HIM and can’t…

Look, Job gives a description of GOD when he can’t even find HIM… Job says, I looked over here and over there… I went forward and backward, on the left, but note, WHERE HE DOTH WORK…

Imagine Job who can’t find GOD still can say, “o well HE’S working…” That word (WORK) and its meaning is too much to list, but in part it means (to do, or to make…) So, while Job is dying and losing, and has lost... GOD is over here where Job can’t see HIM ... And look at this, Job still says well, GOD’S over here doing and making me what I need to be…

The last word Strong’s gives for work is (USE…) Job is like, “GOD is over here where I can’t see him, but I am of HIS use…” “GOD is using me for HIS purpose… The least I can do is TRUST him…"

Look at what Job says next… 11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.    KJV

When you can say that when you can’t even find GOD…that is ((TRUST…))

Remember… “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

GOD has a plan and you are in it, but too often that plan never reaches full maturity because Ishmael is born from a method that is our own…

Isa 14:26 I have a plan for the whole earth, for my mighty power reaches throughout the world.

27 The LORD Almighty has spoken — who can change his plans? When his hand moves, who can stop him?"    NLT

GOD HAS A PLAN, AND EXPECTED END FOR US ALL… DON’T DENY HIM, OR DERAIL HIS PURPOSE FOR YOU BY A MEANS THAT IS YOUR OWN…

TAKE THE TEST…

·        IS THIS GOING TO BE A TESTIMONY THAT IS GOING TO GLORIFY GOD???

·        IS THIS GOING TO BUILD YOUR FAITH???

·        IS THIS GOING TO EDIFY THE CHURCH??? IS IT GOING TO INCREASE THE FAITH OF THEM THAT HEAR YOU AND SEE YOU???

·        CAN YOU GO TO THE WORD OF GOD AND FIND DEFENSE FOR YOUR ISHMAEL???

YOU KNOW YOU CAN'T IF IT INCLUDES YOU DOING IT…

One preacher said, “YOU NEVER REALLY TRUST GOD UNTIL YOU TRUST HIM TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE…”

Life is made of a few special memories and moments, those remembered will be monumental because they will consist of those where you didn’t do it, but GOD DID IT… THAT IS WHY ITS TRUST…

HANG IN THERE… HE’S WORKING…