These past few days a word keeps appearing to me. It is a word that is both scary and peaceful at the same time. Trust. Before I dive too deep into this word, let's give the definition of this word. According to Webster dictionary trust is "assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something." In other words it's something that you have no control over. I am not sure about you, but for myself that is a hard thing to do, to allow someone or something to control things that will affect me. An example of this could be loaning your car to someone, and trusting them to take care of it and not crash it. Other examples could be allowing someone to watch your child or children. Both examples could be make someone very uneasy, but let's take it one step further. How about letting an "invisible God." (Colossians 1:15) control your life.
It use to terrify me but now it's more of a discomfort. What changed? Perspective for one. Meaning knowing God's perspective is much, much larger than ours. In other words we are one thread in a incredibly large quilt that someday we will be able to see, but for now, we need to trust that he is making one crazy awesome masterpiece. Now get this, he is asking (not forcing) each of us to be apart of this masterpiece. Which brings up a question, do you suppose the God of this Universe is trusting us to be his thread? Let me say that again, is the God of this Universe trusting us, us who are weak and miniscule to help him with his work? He knows better than anyone how messy and broken we are. So how is it even logical to use us in His masterpiece? I don't know about you, but when I give my keys to my car to someone I have a mini freak out inside, because I have a hard time trusting people, and to clarify that is a car, which can easily be replaced. But God is trusting us with His Game Plan. This is a God who has entrusted us with so much, like carrying out The Great Commission (Matthew 28:16-20). Now if that isn't trust then please give me a better example.
That being said, what about me trusting God. I feel like I can't even trust Him with finances or finding me a suitable wife. It's rather silly when I sit down and write, I mean I actually had to laugh at myself. This is an issue that I am still working with and will for a long time. Regardless of my issues with trusting God at times, when I do, there comes this incredible sense of peace. Which I don't think I could articulate in words, because trusting God is not something that can't be written out, it needs to be lived out.
Introduction
Blogging. Why? Not entirely sure yet, but I hope share questions and thoughts regarding my life, more specifically my walk with Christ. I am not here to force my thoughts on you, but I do hope to stir the pot. In other words my goal with this is to simply challenge you and myself with critical thinking. Examples of this would be, suffering, education, social media, following Christ, following the World. Again, I am not here to debate, but just to share what the Holy Spirit is doing, or has done, in my life. I hope that you enjoy reading the upcoming posts as much as I will enjoy writing them.
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