Please Accept My Apology, I was ill Yesterday and Forgot to Place My Wonderful and Newly Married God daughter’s Introduction on top of her Devotional that She wrote. Yesterday’s Devotional Was Written By The My Beautiful God Daughter and Newly Wed Tracy Dixon! Today you have me back…
I Will, Trust…
Isaiah 12:2 (Amplified Bible)
2Behold, God, my salvation! I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord God is my strength and song; yes, He has become my salvation.
The people in my life that are closest to me know that the latter part of last week and the weekend were tough for me. I was going through some personal issues and found myself hurting and in a strange land that I had never been in before. Oh not that hurt, pain or disappointment was unfamiliar to me, but I usually have an understanding of what happened to cause things to go down the way, that they have. That is where things become tricky for me this time, it was in the why. When we have no clue why something happened, it can drive us crazy, if we let it and it can deepen our sorrow and pain, and make our recovery all the more of a challenge. Today as I entered my fifth day of a migraine headache and an upset stomach, I laid and prayed earnestly for any type of answer, but still I felt that God was silent. Later on my daughter came in and we were talking we turned on the television and we were watching Sunday’s Best, and a contestant began to sing a Donnie McClurkin song entitled, “I will.” As I listened to the words that simply said I will, trust you, my eyes filled with tears and my spirit man was quickened. I remember just last Wednesday I had uttered the words that I trusted that God had allowed something to happen in my life. Then He said, “With all of this do you still trust me?” I had no other choice but to say, yes God no matter what I see, I still trust that this all was a part of your will. Even now thinking about it, with eyes filled with tears, my heart and my spirit say yes I do and will trust you, Lord.
It is so easy to trust God when all is right with us and it is all flowing the way that we think it should. But what happens when things begin to go in the opposite direction or to a place in which we feel it should not be going and things look bleak, misaligned and out of order (chaos even)? Can we still stand by our proclamation that was made in good times that we will continue to trust God? For many of us that is when the rollercoaster ride begins and we start going up and down and in and out spiritually. We start doubting God and whether or not we should be walking this thing out with God, because it always seems that the closer we try to get to Him the more hell breaks loose in our lives. But what if in these moments when our life seems to be minus heaven’s Glory, that God is trying to get us to understand that trust is not conditional, it is unconditional with Him; that no matter what we see, hear, feel, experience or go through that He is right there and it is His will being worked out in us. We recite a lot Romans 8:28 (NTL) “And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.” But the question is do we really believe it? Most of us would say yes, to save face, but deep down knowing that this was further from the truth, that if it did not feel good and look good to us, it was not working out for our good. But if we understand that we are called according to His purpose that it is working out for our good and it will be just fine in a minute even if it did not appear to be right in this moment.
I know many of us are facing so many challenging situations, and so many things are trying our patience’s, our soul’s, our mind and thought’s, our finance’s, our families, our jobs and so many other things, but will we stand and trust God with it all? Will we be determined that no matter what we will trust God just like we trusted Him when all was going well? As I have gotten to so many times in my walk with Christ and I had to reaffirm again today, YES LORD, I WILL TRUST YOU! Will you as well?
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