TRUST GOD: HE IS WORKING FOR YOUR GOOD
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“For we have heard of your faith
in Christ Jesus as leaning of your entire human personality on Him in absolute
trust and confidence in His power, wisdom and goodness…”—Colossians 1:4
The Scriptures instruct
us that we are to come to Jesus with child-like faith. We can come to Him with confidence and have
reliance upon His character, ability and strength. The disciples put their trust in Him
time-and-time again. For example, when
there was not enough food to feed the crowds of people, they did what Jesus
told them to do; they took a few fish and loaves of bread and passed it out
among the thousands of people. Can you
imagine how it must have been like to begin to pass out the food among the
great crowds of people? They had never
been in a situation like that before.
They simply trusted the Words of Jesus; did what He said to do, and then
began to witness the fish and loaves of bread multiplied.
One of the first times
that I believed God for bread was when we lived on the farm. I needed to buy some bread and did not have enough
money to buy a loaf of bread. So, I
prayed and asked God for some bread quoting Proverbs 37:25, “I have been young and now I am old, yet I
have not seen the righteous forsaken or his descendants begging bread.” A
few hours after I had prayed, a man came to our door with several loaves of
bread. I learned that I could trust His goodness in my life. Today trust His goodness to meet your every
need.
Rahab, the harlot, is
another example of someone who put her confidence in God. When she hid the spies that Joshua sent into
Jericho, from the king of the country, she chose to trust in God for deliverance
when the Israeli army invaded their city.
She was not disappointed; her
life and lives of her family members were spared (Joshua 2). You
can trust Him for your deliverance. “How
blessed is he who considers the helpless; the Lord will deliver him in a day of
trouble, the Lord will protect him and keep him alive, and he shall be called
blessed upon the earth; and do not give him over to the desire of his enemies’
(Psalm 41:1-2).
The main speaker at a
business seminar that I attended related the following testimony of how he had
been blessed. He said that he had over
3,000 employees world-wide, and had several business and personal
advisors. However, there were times that
their advice was not always enough.
During these times, he would schedule specific times to pray and seek God’s
wisdom throughout his busy day. Without fail, he always received wisdom and
insight that he had not previously known.
“Blessed is the man who listens to
[Wisdom] me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors”
(Proverbs 8:34).
There are times that we
have put our trust in people and they have disappointed and even failed us;
however, the unfaithfulness of people does not change the faithfulness of God. God’s goodness never changes. When we put our faith and trust Him, His goodness
is at work in our lives.
Prayer—Father
I purpose in my heart to trust you and to seek your wisdom for life’s
challenges. Thank you that I can trust
your goodness to be at work in my life, in Jesus Name. Amen.
