“I'm Learning to Trust God”
” Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”
Tameka writes:
Well its like this- God is a wonderful god and he has brought me through alot in my lil’ life. Well i started off like this, i knew in my heart that i needed to save my soul. I woke up one day and just said to myself “Lord i cant do this anymore. i really want to walk with you Lord.” See before i was placing God on a long term goal. I woke up and said to myself I must change my life, so I let go of all my problems and allowed God to handle my life. before i believed in God but I guess i really never trusted him enough. I said to myself, how can I believe and not trust in the Lord? Ever since I placed all my faith in the lord and not myself, man my life has been better. I see myself as a miracle from god. I love Jesus!
Please note that the views expressed in this story are not necessarily the views of the American Bible Society. Story posted on July 28th, 2008 and filed under Hope, God's Love, Bible, Your Stories, Prayer.
July 28th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Dear Tameka:
I echo your “Ever since I placed all my faith in the lord and not myself…I see myself as a miracle….”
For I rise out of all my worldly anxieties, fears and plans when I think of myself as the arbiter of my own fate, and thus lean to my own human, earthly understanding.
Now I confide in God’s Will, as I have the blessed assurance of justification by faith.
Even though I have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God, I am “justified as a gift by His Grace, through the Redemption which is in Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:24).
Consequently, with the “Peace of GOD that surpasses understanding,” when “Even my close friend, whom I trusted, he who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me” (Psalm 41:9), I can sing with the Psalmists: “I trust in Your Unfailing Love; my heart rejoices in Your Salvation: (Psalm 13:5);
“The LORD is my Strength and my Shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to Him in song” (Psalm 28:7).
I am, no doubt, daily heedful of the First and Great Commandment, that I shall “LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND….” (Matthew 22:37).
Thank you.
May GOD ALL MIGHTY Bless you infinitely and inestimably;
GODSPEED, always and forevermore!
Mary Sun.