Trust For the Journey

Do you remember the game in which a person is asked to blindly trust a group of people to catch him as he falls backwards? I’ve watched it done, but never actually been the … sucker! J

Genuine trust is found in a deeply dug well! As children, many of us jumped into an adult’s open arms – perhaps without hesitation. We trusted those arms were the destination. Is our trust in God genuine enough to move ahead with no knowledge of where that trust will lead? Oswald Chambers suggests when God calls us to do something and we are obedient (as we should be), we often [foolishly] “assume” He’s leading us to some perceived success. Saying “yes” to God doesn’t mean He’s calling us to a specific finish but rather to a particular process. Think about it, it’s during the journey where we struggle most – not the end! Chambers writes, “What He desires for me is that I see Him walking on the sea with no shore, no success, nor goal in sight, but simply having the absolute certainty that everything is all right because I see ‘Him walking on the sea’ (Mark 6:49).” We can count on God to reveal Himself as we obey Him, in the right-now times of life. He wants to empower us to walk on the storms right now, not at some future date. There are no spiritual “suckers” who rest assuredly in the deep and certain well-of-trust of Almighty God. As you walk in obedience, trust Him in the journey – He Who is trustworthy!