Day 7: Trust Trusts

You are WAITING for ___________ to change.

A circumstance.

A feeling.

A person.

You have been WAITING for ______________ to change,

and nothing has changed.

So you start thinking about what you

SHOULD do

or COULD do,

to help GOD  give you what you want when you want it.

For it all then becomes about your timing,

 because GOD'S TIMING just appears to be too slow.

And then you hear the soft whisper deep within your soul,

"TRUST ME!"

Ouch.

GOD gets your attention.

GOD got my attention.

For GOD so LOVES that HE shows up to remind me

that HE is GOD and does not need my help.

Oh what a wake up call,

when GOD wakes you up with

HIS WORDS of TRUTH. 

How would GOD define WAIT?

I would answer with the word

TRUST!

For TRUST is what changes you while you are

 WAITING

for that circumstance,

or that person,

or that feeling to change.

TRUSTING takes you deeper into the heart of GOD, 

which takes you closer to JESUS who wants

ALL your HEART.

And there HE is!

TRUST ME!

Does TRUST ME

mean to JUST SAY that

 I am TRUSTING GOD,

 yet continue to

DWELL on what I am WAITING FOR GOD TO DO,  

instead of DWELLING IN HIM?

Hmm.

BE STILL AND KNOW that GOD IS GOD,

because I am not god.

TRUST GOD!

When GOD SAYS TRUST ME HE MEANS TRUST ME!

For when you SURRENDER and TRUST HIM.

 "IT" happens,

GOD HAPPENS, 

even if what you want when you want it isn't happening.

Because GOD always keeps HIS PROMISES,

for HE shows up in a way that dramatically

pierces your heart with exactly what you NEED.

For I remember the moment when I was growing weary in

THE WAIT,

and then I heard the words

TRUST ME!

And there was GOD, using the words of another,

that HE obviously handpicked for me,

as HIS asking me to TRUST HIM

was just an appetizer to what HE had for me.

I was reading the words of a devotional,

and it was if an arrow went straight to my heart,

piercing it with

TRUST ME.

Here is what I read after GOD asked me to TRUST HIM~

"Self–awareness is not sin, and it can be produced by nervous emotions or by suddenly being dropped into a totally new set of circumstances.

Yet it is never GOD'S will that we should be anything less than absolutely complete in HIM. ANYTHING that disturbs our rest in HIM must be rectified at once,

and it is not rectified by being ignored but only by coming to JESUS CHRIST.

If we will come to HIM, asking HIM to produce CHRIST~awareness in us,

HE will always do it, until we fully learn to abide in HIM"

(Oswald Chambers).

As I was reading this, it was as if a neon sign was blinking before my face

to,

"TRUST GOD

with ALL my HEART

and not to LEAN on my OWN UNDERSTANDING

and in ALL my ways

ACKNOWLEDGE HIM

and

HE SHALL DIRECT YOUR PATHS"

(Proverbs 3:6).

Now I have read this verse a gazillion times.

Now I have recited this verse a gazillion times.

But is reading and reciting this verse mactually

LIVING out HIS WORDS?

TO TRUST or NOT TO TRUST, 

or better asked,

TO BELIEVE or NOT TO BELIEVE GOD?

GOD is so gracious that HE HEARS your HEART WORDS,

and HE always ANSWERS.

"TRUST ME".

And what does TRUST mean?

TRUST!

TO SURRENDER to the ONE whom you place your TRUST.

Who do you TRUST?

Where do place your TRUST?

Is it in your FEELINGS, CIRCUMSTANCES, PEOPLE, or THINGS?

Oh how TRUSTING in my FEELINGS with ALL my heart.

and leaning on MY FEELINGS for UNDERSTANDING, 

as to what PATH I SHOULD take,

never ever ever leads me to a good place.

TRUST GOD!

For I didn't and you didn't create ourselves.

TRUST GOD,

for only THE CREATOR KNOWS HIS CREATIONS

through and through.

Therefore,

shouldn't  GOD be the ONE who to whom we place our TRUST,

because GOD'S ANSWER to ALL our NEEDS

are found IN JESUS.

So where did GOD take me

after I was going down the

 "SHOULD" path?

HE lead me back to the right path,

of

 TRUSTING HIM with ALL my HEART,

as HE took me back to the

SERMON ON THE MOUNT~

  "But first and most importantly

SEEK (aim at, strive after)

HIS kingdom and HIS righteousness~

 HIS way of doing and being right,

the attitude and character of GOD~

 and all these things will be given to you also"

(Matthew 6:33)

Therefore,

will you join me today and

TRUST GOD

with ALL your

FEELINGS,

CIRCUMSTANCES,

RELATIONSHIPS,

and

THINGS, 

by

SEEKING HIM FIRST

so that

TRUST becomes more than just a

word,

but a way of LIFE.

TO TRUST or NOT TO TRUST?

There is only one answer~

"TRUST IN GOD" 

(listen to the song below)

https://youtu.be/iJE4yahElBQ?si=VB7oqtKE_Nb2rMZj