Learning to Trust God

Oftentimes we walk through life in need of help, but not really knowing where to turn to. We have our highs and lows and do everything possible to medicate them with earthly needs, ignorant and lazy to exercise the spiritual tools that we have available at our disposal. Don't worry! You are not the only one who has to come into the light of just how resourceful serving God can be.

Sometimes I have walked through days, weeks, even months of wrestling with things and dealing with them the best way I know how, even though my best way wasn't always the best way. I've learned to lean in and give God my complete and total trust.

We go through things in life. Our trust is gained and lost in the most painful and excruciating ways, and we lose trust and have to learn how to trust again. Trusting is a part of love, so in order for us to exercise it, we have to choose to heal from the broken pasts that have been created as a result of just living life. People we have viewed as heroes have let us down unintentionally because they just like us are human beings too, capable of being hurt and have been hurt. Those that we sometimes think the world of and feel as though they can do no wrong sometimes do wrong and let us down. We too have let people down.

It's so important for us to understand that putting our trust in God is the safest place for it to dwell, and we have to be dedicated to pursuing this, and God can work with you if you just choose to take the first step forward. Prayer is one of the ways that we draw nearer to God, when our hearts decide that we want to know more of Him. Salvation is not the stopping point of growing in a closer, deeper walk with God, but rather the beginning of building a lasting relationship in drawing nearer to His heart.

The Lord tells us to place no confidence in the flesh and yet we still find a way to do it, whether it be in ourselves and/or others. We have to learn, unlearn, and relearn things.

We learn to trust people because it provides us with the safety net we need to feel some form of security about life. They hurt us sometimes intentionally, other times unintentionally. We then have to unlearn that we shouldn't put all of our confidence in the false perceptions that we sometimes hold of people, no matter how righteous they are. This point can be painful because distrust plays a part of whether or not you will move to the next phase in a healthy and wholesome manner. We have to relearn how to trust God and people so that we can not only continue to love them, but also so that we can be loved and pass on healthy trust to the next generation and allow them the same opportunity to develop how to trust.

The closer my relationship has grown with God, the more I developed trust with Him, and the more things He has entrusted me with. I've walked with God to the point of just trusting that He will take care of me and the journey hasn't been easy. I still sometimes have to learn how to let go of things as I grow up in Him. I have learned through the story of Peter that even though sometimes people hurt you through rejection and denial and/or by some means of self-survival erasing and or not even thinking on the fact of how it might effect you, you still have to see the overall good in them, especially when they have a heart of repentance.

Jesus still trusted Peter with the keys necessary to help build and develop His Kingdom. All hurt is not something that we should catalyzed as a means to erase people from our life, but as a means to grow closer to the one who holds our future in His hands, and that is the Lord God Almighty.

I hope and pray that you know on today that whatever you may be carrying, no matter how big or great you think the problem may be. Jesus is strong enough to carry it for you and not only that, He has enough love in His heart to mold you back to health. I pray that you learn to grow deeper in your relationship with God and give Him the trust that He deserves as your Father and Faithful Friend.

Blessings to you,

Apostle Lynn