Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day ( Wednesday 12/03/08)

I can, I Will, I Must...

Job 13:14-16 (Amplified Bible)
14) Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands [incurring the danger of God's wrath]?
15) [I do it because, though He slay me, yet will I wait for and trust Him and] behold, He will slay me; I have no hope--nevertheless, I will maintain and argue my ways before Him and even to His face.
16) This will be my salvation, that a polluted and godless man shall not come before Him.

As I watch my daughter go through certain trauma's and drama's with so called friends (some days watching this thing unfold is like watching a soap opera) and I try to understand "why we even need to go there." I do see clearly and understand that it is a trust issue. It comes from my daughter innocently trusting people with her whole heart and believing that the way she loves and cares for them, they would do the same in return. Every time I have given my heart in a relationship of some sort I have trusted that I would be okay and that the individual receiving my devotion would respect and cherish it as I have done them, but never, and I do use the word never was that the case in return. Placing our trust in people often yields us pain with no chance of reward, or benefit. People will mistreat us even when we do not deserve it, just because, but they will also leave us in our most dire of situations uncovered and in a place of that is unjust and filled with lack, but God never does.

So many times we come to a place with God we do not understand why God would allow us to go through certain things. There are incidence when we even realize that God could have prevented that situation and we become angered at His unwillingness to divert things, away from our lives. We simply stated do not see the necessity that is in trusting in Him. We fail to see that trusting God means a way of escape and plan of salvation, an offering of hope. Instead we focus on what pains, what discomforts, and what injustices have been done. We grasp at people and things to comfort us and to try to give us some consolation instead of just trusting God. To trust God means we can look to Him and see past all that is impossible, to look into the eyes of love and see it being returned unto us again. To trust God when all else looks bleak is to to gain a strength that will help us make it through another day (some times even another hour). To trust God when the pain is overwhelming is to know that God is a miracle worker and He can heal whatever pains or ails us.

That trust that we have given to friends, family and other sources, often is misplaced. We often trust them , more that we trust God. We give into them a trust and reliance that says, I give you my all and I do not expect you to hurt me or cause me pain, so why do we not give God that and more. He is however the God who never fails us, He is the one who promised never to leave us or forsake us. Make up in your mind today that no matter what, goes right or wrong you are going to trust God! Your faith and confidence will be His!