Trust

Our obedience is connected to the level of trust we have for God the Father. Most of us can muster up enough faith to accept Christ as our Lord and Savior. Yet fail to allow Holy Spirit room to transform us into all Father has destined us to become. The word teaches us to trust and obey, trust and believe, and to trust and receive. In other words, our obedience, belief and ability to receive the things of God are tied to our ability to trust Him. Father wants us to trust that He will do what He said He would do. He wants us to trust that He would not harm us but do us good. He wants us to trust that He knows what’s best for us and what we need and when we need it. The bible mentions trusting God more than 130 times. So, I ask what’s the deal with trust? Why do we have such a hard time trusting Him?

To trust God, we must first trust ourselves. We have to be honest with ourselves and hold ourselves accountable. If we aren’t going to hold ourselves responsible for our share of the relationship, we will not trust anyone let alone God. In order for us to trust God we must have faith in Him, and that faith grows just as our level of trust in Him does. As we walk hand in hand with Him in time, we see our history together and we allow Him closer to us. At the heart of intimacy is trust it’s the rock of every relationship, it’s very core and without it they want last. We are meant to have relationship with our creator God the Father. The closeness we feel from our relationships are based upon the level of trust we have with one another. Our relationships require intimacy. Intimacy can’t be faked, its either there or it isn’t. Intimacy is measured by how close we allow the other person in the relationship to get to us and that is always tied to how well we trust them.

Words today like loyalty, transparency and accountability have been removed from societies thinking and vocabulary. It’s like a foreign policy to most people. God requires intimacy with us in exchange He fills all our voids. It’s that whole we all search to have filled. We desperately look for someone to accept us, to love us, to need us, to want us and only God can fill that void, yet we try everything in our own power and might to fill it. Finally coming to Him after we have exhausted ourselves, resources, and time. In life we hurt ourselves and become painfully aware subconsciously that we can’t trust our self so how will we trust Him?

Every breakthrough we look for requires that we trust Him. I have to have more faith to trust Him after I trust Him for salvation to live day by day. As I grow, I begin to understand Him and His ways. As I mature in His word, I’m able to look over my life and see how He’s kept me, and this gives me confidence that He is well able. It signals to me that He is trustworthy. This process cannot be rushed. Just as we meet people and become interested in dating them, we don’t rush to the bedroom. We take our time we go out to restaurant, movie theaters, bowling etc as we grow in trust with this person, we then begin to entertain them around our family, friends or our own home. Instead of going out we stay in for a movie. We have begun building trust between one another. Over time the person shows that they are loyal, accountable, and transparent and we continue to build. Just as it takes time for us to build a relationship with one another we too must take time to build relationship with God the Father.

The process requires time there is no short cuts in this area of development. Intimacy also requires that we know and accept ourselves. Trust overall is faith and it is impossible to please God without Faith. Many people don’t trust God because they don’t trust themselves or they have been hurt by someone and now they are placing that distrust upon everyone. If we allow Him to, He will show us where we are, He will call to us to go deeper in the things of Him and when we answer we will feel closer to Him as the voids begin to fill. As He fills the voids we grow in intimacy and belief, obedience and our ability to receive from Him.