It’s A Matter Of Trust…
2 Kings 18:5-7 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5Hezekiah trusted in, leaned on, and was confident in the Lord, the God of Israel; so that neither after him nor before him was any one of all the kings of Judah like him. 6For he clung and held fast to the Lord and ceased not to follow Him, but kept His commandments, as the Lord commanded Moses. 7And the Lord was with Hezekiah; he prospered wherever he went. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to serve him.
My GodBaby dislikes when I talk about her or her husband in the devotionals without warning her, because she says most times it gets her (brings her to tears). Well of course, I didn’t warn her that I was writing about her today. Today is her thirtieth birthday, but most do not know that I have known Tracy for over half of her life. I have watched her, learned her, cried with her, and prayed with her and over her. I have protected her, fought with her, encouraged her, and most of all loved her, without condition. She is an extraordinary young woman, but the quality that has really begun to manifest in her life that many will not observe is that in her highs and her low, and everything in-between, she trusts God. Now, she may waiver for a moment, she may ask why, but she trusts Him. I have observed how she has trusted God through abuse, infidelity, the loss of children, when family and friends turned their back on her, when she was talked about, lied on, made to think she was crazy, stabbed in the back at work and in her personal life. I watched her rise up out of the ashes of her pain to utter the words, even if in a whisper “God I trust, and that there is no God like Him.” When in the midst of her own struggle she encouraged people around her to trust God, even if she was feeling faint the words that she spoke and the actions she displayed never said anything contrary, to the fact that she trusted God.
God had given me the title to this devotional in church on Sunday, but as I lay in bed early this morning I had no idea how he was going to unfold this message. I began to pray, and He began to allow me to see her life from thirteen to present and although she will confess quickly she has been far from perfect, God has never been far from her. He has been in her sights, and she has been relying and trusting Him since she was in her youth. How many of us can say the same? How many of us, make our lives a matter of trust, regardless of the circumstances that arise? As I thought about my own life, I can admit my trust in Him has fell short of what it should have been and it caused me to make decisions out of fear, and not faith. It has caused me to take matters into my own hands and not trust God enough to wait on Him and trust that He had it ALL in control. I have learned that making our life a matter of trust is such an important and vital element that keeps us out of trouble that keeps us from faltering that keeps us from falling into the wrong hands and aligning ourselves with the wrong people. In many cases it keeps us from jail, because when people do us wrong or treat us in a certain way, we can still look to God and say and live like we trust Him, with the understanding that all things do work together for the good to them that love the Lord and are called according to His purpose.
Can we get to a place where our default is always to trust God? Many of us are striving, pushing and running towards that because we understand that trusting God is the only real way to live. Others of us are struggling with being in control, fearful, rebellious, disobedient or just out and out lacking the faith to believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. My Father one day during a very trying and frustrating time in my life said “Lisa, where there is fear there is no faith. They run on the same pole in opposite directions.” That has stuck with me, and anytime my trust and faith get a little weak, I remember those words, and understand that if I am not trusting God I am doubting Him and not just doubting but fearful that my needs will be unmet and that whatever is going on in my life God cannot fix or heal. God has been faithful and if you look at His track record He really has never let us down, so why is it that we are not trusting Him, again?
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