Trusting God is very important, it is easier said than done though. We often trust God in the good times, but forget about Him in the bad times. We must understand that God remains the same in every situation , for Jesus is the same, yesterday, today and forever ( Hebrews 13 verse 8). We have to trust in His great Love and Mercy, for He alone can help us overcome our daily struggles and trials. Trusting God is a lifestyle, it doesn't mean that we sit around doing nothing. We have to trust Him and do all things to the honour and glory of God, for only then can we truly be trusting in Him. Let me give you a short example: There once was a Captain of a troop of soldiers, he and his forces were holding a border fort. He was informed that reinforcements were on their way to relieve them. He trusted that they would arrive as planned. He and his men continued fighting the enemy and holding the fort. They obviously couldn't stop fighting, just because they heard that reinforcements were on their way, or they would be completely overrun. In the same way, we can't stop seeking to improve our situation just because we are trusting in God, bear in mind, that we must do what God wills, not just anything, but exactly as He tells us to do.
Let us read
1 Samuel 14
verse 1 to
14, we read
that Jonathan and his armor-bearer
attacked a Philistine
outpost, even though
they were outnumbered.
When Jonathan suggested
to his armor-bearer
that they should
go over to
the philistine outpost,
the armor-bearer replied, “ Go
ahead, I am
with you heart
and soul.( Verse 7 )” When
we look at
the entire situation,
it is very
surprising as to
why the armor-bearer
would agree to
go to the
enemy’s outpost, when he didn’t
even have a
weapon ( 1 Samuel 13
verse 22 ). The
armor-bearer could have
easily said to
Jonathan that, “ This
is foolish, we’ll
get killed ”, he
could have even
went back to
Saul and reported
Jonathan’s plan, which
Saul was sure
to stop. Saul
had camped out,
he hadn’t acted
yet, as his
men had no weapons,
Saul would have
definitely stopped Jonathan’s
plan, as it
was humanly impossible
to defeat the
Philistines without weapons.
The armor-bearer trusted
Jonathan, he had
no doubt that
what Jonathan said
would be done.
This made me
think, “Do we
trust God in
the same way?”
“Are we with
God heart and
soul?” Do we
trust that what
God says, will
be done or
do we doubt?
Just as Jonathan
asked his armor-bearer
to follow him,
in the same
way Christ asks
us to follow
him. If the
armor-bearer had such
faith in a
mere man, shouldn’t
we have faith
in The Creator
of Heaven and
Earth?
Jeremiah 17 verse
7 says, “But
blessed is the man who
trusts in the
Lord, whose confidence
is in him.” We
must trust God
with all our
heart and all
our soul, only
then can we
have real faith,
as you can
not have faith
in someone, you
don’t trust!
To trust God
when the times
are good is
easy, but we
have to trust
Him, even when
the times are
bad, just as
Jonathan asked his
armor-bearer to follow
him into danger,
so will God
ask us to
follow him through
all kinds of trials and
danger.
James 1 verse
2 says, “Consider
it pure joy,
my brothers, whenever
you face trials
of many kinds.” We
have to trust
God through our
trials, only then
can we have
joy even in the midst
of our trials, for
trials will come.
For the Bible
says, “ In fact,
everyone who wants
to live a
godly life in
Christ Jesus will
be persecuted( 2 Timothy
3 verse 12 )”
Notice that in
verse 13, Jonathan
went first and
his armor-bearer followed
him, in the
same way, God
goes out before
us, to prepare
the way! For God says
in Isaiah 52 verse
12 , “But you
will not leave
in haste or
go in flight,
for the Lord
will go before
you, the God
of Israel will
be your rear
guard.” We have
to seek out
God’s will, we
must not act
in haste, for
God will only
prepare for us
on the path
he has set
out for us. Jesus says,
“And anyone who
does not take
up his cross
and follow me
is not worthy
of me ( Matthew 10
verse 38 ).” He also
says in Mark
8 verse 34, “
If anyone would
come after me,
he must deny
himself and take
up his cross
and follow me.”
We must deny
self and humbly
follow Jesus’s will,
for there is
no other way
but Jesus, for
He is the
way, the gate
that we must
enter through, He
alone grants us
grace, He alone
saves. Finally I
say trust God
for “ He who
trusts in God, will never
be put to
shame( 1 Peter 2
verse 6 )”
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