Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all of your heart; and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.
From the time that we take our first step as toddlers, until the day they lay us in a soft bed to comfort us in our last days on earth, we strive to be independent.
There is just something about us that compels our soul want to “do it ourselves”. To wait for someone to help us. To go through the embarrassment of having to ask for help, is for most of us, more difficult than just trying to figure out the problem ourselves.
Even for the person who is trying to follow Jesus, the surrender of our life to His Lordship is much more difficult than receiving Him as our Savior. Most of us want to be saved from the penalty of our sins, but oh how hard it is to turn over the control of our daily lives to Jesus.
Yet this is absolutely what the Lord requires of everyone who choses to follow Him. Jesus will accept nothing less than complete acknowledgment of His Lordship over our life. For most of the enduring years of our existence, we struggle with whether to trust Him or to try ourselves.
The truest meaning of “Faith” is simply to trust. Faith is not placing your unquestionable confidence in something without any logical reason to do so. To the contrary, faith is to place trust in someone who has demonstrated a reliable and credible past performance.
The main purpose of the Bible to to provide us with this incontrovertible evidence and give us a basis for faith in the God of the Bible. As we follow actual men and women portrayed in the scriptures and see how their trust in God was developed over the course of their lifetime, we have good reason ourselves to also trust God.
Abraham is taken as a pagan from his homeland and told to by God to go to a place that is yet unknown. Abraham must at least have enough trust in God to pack up his belongings and set off to discover where this God will lead him.
Along the way Abraham takes detours that God did not tell him to take. Commits lies, has fears and many doubts. The Lord does not abandon him, but continues to work in Abraham’s life as He often has to wait on him to move from the path he is on, to the one that God has called him to.
In our walk with the Lord today, may we remember that we are also being led by the Lord in such a way that He is daily seeking to give us opportunities to trust Him a little more than the day before. There will be obstacles along the path, and it is for certain that we are going to fail in the area of our faith. We will need to repent, turn from path’s we are taking and get back on the way that the Lord is desiring to lead us.
Rob Robinson
