"Do you TRUST Me?"

Isaiah 2:22
Stop trusting man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
Psalm 118:6,8
The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.

It's so easy to put all of our trust in people when we freak out because we can see they're there and we know they're doing something. I reckon the scariest thing for someone is to know that they have no one to fall back on and to protect them. Everyone hates the feeling of loneliness so we love having people who we can see and we put all our faith in them. But, we can't do that because people have limitations. They can't do everything and save us from anything and they may turn from us for selfish reasons as well. Instead, we need to put our trust in God first for he watches us, knows us by name and loves us too much to let anything happen to us.

I was watching Aladdin the other day and there are these two scenes which show him doing the same thing. In both, he's about to do something crazy (ie, jump out the window) and he reaches his hand out to Jazmine and says, "Do you trust me?"

Wow. Talk about being out on the spot! It made me think of the times when God has asked me to do something which seemed crazy, then reach out his hand and say those four words. I wonder, do I trust God enough that even when my world is shaken, I still firmly believe that he is a just and true God? It sometimes takes a shaken world to knock down the supports and build that trust, rooted in love.

So, my challenge today is to question your trust in God. Imagine God saying to you:

"My child, do you trust me?
My child, do you trust me?
My child, do you trust me?"

My prayer is that God will fire up in you a passion for his name and plan, and that you'll be ready the next time to simply say, "Yes," when he reaches out his hand.

Blessings