Where do you turn in a day when trust has been misused, maligned, and twisted to fit someone else’s agenda?
Some put their trust in materialism, whoever has the most money and toys at the end wins. It’s a very sad epitaph. The only thing we can put our trust in this world is Jesus.
We should never put our trust in Pastor’s. Minister’s Rabbi’s or other clergy because man let’s us down, it may not be intentionally but they will not be able to meet all your requirements.
Matthew 6:19-21 tells us where we can put our trust.
“Do not lay up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves don’t break through and steal, for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.“
Why is it that we do not honestly and openly trust in the Lord in every situation that we find ourselves in?
I believe one of the reasons is we see things in the world, that deceive us, instead of our invisible Lord and Savior.
Romans 12:1-2 gives us divine direction on how to put our trust in the Lord.
“ I urge you, brothers (and sisters), by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. Do not bee confirmed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is good, well-pleasing, and the perfect will of God.”
Paul is saying here, that you have to trust the Lord enough to lay your life totally and completely on Him.
The world has many things that pull us away from trusting the Lord. I think we live in the worst time of materialism that has ever been seen.
One of the culprits is the internet, while it is good, people use it for the wrong reasons. It takes up some much of people’s lives. Satan is deceptive and will offer you the opportunity to pull your attention away from the Lord and pull your thinking from the Lord to the world.
John 10:10 tells us that,
“The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came so that they can have life, and have it abundantly.“
Satan will not only steal your joy, but steal your trust in the Lord. That is why we need to resist satan. James 4:7 tells us to,
“Submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you.“
1 Corinthians 10:13 says,
“No temptation had overtaken you except such as is common to mankind, but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.”
Just from those scripture it verifies that we do not have to succumb to the things of the world, ti take our trust off God and put it on the things of the world.
The Hebrew word for trust is Lexicon, it means to set one’s Hope and confidence, to be secure, fearing nothing.
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