Trusting in the Darkness

 

Is trusting God hard for you?  When you lay something at His feet, do you, like me, continue to pick it up and gaze at it and try to figure it out?  Are you a fretter? 

Here is God's Word for you and me then:  Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself . . . (Psalm 37)  How do we do that when the thing we are fretting about keeps presenting itself before our eyes?  How are we to be still? 

By the blood of Christ.  By His mercy.  By understanding and knowing in our very bones that God is enough for us.  God is enough.  If we have Him, we have everything.  If this thing or that never changes, God is enough.  If I have to live my entire life with this affliction or that, God is enough.  My joy is in Him, my strength to obey is from Him, He is my very life.  He is enough for me. 

My heart and my flesh may fail (in fact, WILL fail), but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (Psalm 73:26) 

Trusting is hard work.  It means picking up and setting something down again many times a day.  It means fasting sometimes.  It means praying intentionally and wholeheartedly.  It will probably mean meditating on and memorizing key passages.  It will entail fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy (!!) set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.  (Hebrews 12:2). 

Set this joy before your eyes today.