I Thought You Knew
Deuteronomy 7:8-9 Amplified Bible (AMP)
8But because the Lord loves you and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9Know, recognize, and understand therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, Who keeps covenant and steadfast love and mercy with those who love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations,
The last few weeks I had some questions about some things going on in my life and as I began to pour out of my spirit to God, how I was feeling and the doubt and questions that had begun to consume my mind and heart, the words “don’t you trust me, don’t you know me” came up. It made me think of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes song “If You Don’t Know Me By Now.” The first verse says, “If you don't know me by now…You will never never never know me…All the things that we've been through…You should understand me like I understand you…Now girl I know the difference between right and wrong…I ain't gonna do nothing to break up our happy home…Oh don't get so excited when I come home a little late at night…Cause we only act like children when we argue fuss and fight.” Thus morning my sister/girlfriend called me and she was having a tough moment, as we talked it through, and she was relaying her story, she said yesterday the Lord said “what is it you don’t trust me, you don’t know me and what I have done?” All I could do was laugh, why because that was confirmation, and it again took me back to the fact that even when it looks crazy and we don’t have a clue what is going on or how we are going to make it through, God is asking for our trust, based upon who we understand and know Him to be.
But for many of us this is where the problem enters we don’t know God so we don’t rely on Him. Many of us know of Him and know about Him, but we don’t know Him. We think for some strange reason that the things that have happened that we needed to happen when our back was up against the wall was somehow was our doing, so we have taken God’s credit and we have lacked the ability to see all of the doors He has opened and all of the ways He has made. Knowing God gives us a reference point for God and gives us relationship with Him, and builds an arena for trust in Him, and an understanding that as He has done once for us He will do again. We understand when we know God and trust Him that even if He is delayed we know that He is on His way to accomplish whatever it is that we have need of. When we have history with God through relationship and identification of His movement in our lives, we don’t have to fall out with God and get all upset with Him because He comes another way instead of the way we thought He should come, or that He makes us wait a moment instead of giving us instantaneous gratification. When we have an understanding of who God is to us and how He has worked things out in our lives we know that He wants to stay in relationship with us and He will do everything that “He” can to maintain the relationship, but we have to do our part, by having faith and trust in Him and being obedient even when it doesn’t feel good.
God has been there all along. Take a moment to look over the years of your life, and see how many times you should have been gone from this earth, how many times bills needed to get paid, or ways needed to be made that something happened to open a door or make a way that was not within our means or power to do. No these things were not and are not coincidence; they are God moving in our lives. They were God doing things that we could not get done. Is He not worthy first of the credit that is due Him for all He has made manifest in our lives? Secondly He has been faithful and trustworthy does He not deserve our confidence and our trust that He will provide, He will do what is need to be done to save us, help us, and bless us, out of the places we cannot even help ourselves to comprehend or get out of on our own? God has promised to be there with us, is His word not good enough, it should be because not only does His track record speak for itself, but He has never lied or been in a place to have to repent. He, His Word and Truth are one in the same. You can trust Him if you would only get to know Him and recognize the truth of the history that already exist between you two.
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