Thursday, 18 December 2008
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I Know Exactly Why I Can't Trust God...
Guest post submitted by MissAllSmiles
So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life- your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life--and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings out the best in you, develops well-formed maturity in you. - Romans 12:1-2 MSGThese two verses are my favorites. Every time it read it, it challenges me to live my life above the norm. This passage reminds me of how horrible being habitual is. Notice how it says : take your everyday. We don't ever stop needing God for a day. And I am so guilty of it. I get too caught up in my planned out schedule and whatever I'm doing next to see what God is doing right in front of me. I can't list all of the things I've missed because of my darn schedule that I live by.
What I see is a God who wants to be a part of every single nook and cranny of my life: a Sovereign, huge God wants to spend time everyday with me. Somehow I don't trust him enough to take care of things so enter the schedule. The schedule that takes over my life is the schedule that too often takes me away from my Father. The Father that I don't trust near enough.
Sometimes, I imagine God yelling from heaven at me, "HELLO?!?! You know how great I am, so why aren't you trusting me? I created the whole world and you still don't think that I can take care of you and what ever you're going through?"
I know exactly why I can't trust God- because I'm afraid of the unknown. My schedule is the known in my life, but when I trust God my schedule becomes unknown, and the unknown is intimidating and scary. So now the question is- How do I learn to accept the unknown in my life?"God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we're free of worry on Judgment Day -our standing in the world is identical with Christ's. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life--fear of death, fear of judgment--is one not yet fully formed in love." -1 John 4:17-18I guess I have a ways to go....and guess the journey is the best part.What parts of your life did you have difficulty trusting God with? How did you give them over to Him?
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I finally got up enough nerve to tithe a few years back. My husband and I had great-paying jobs then. Well we went about 2.5 months just handing it all over, 10-% of all our monies coming in. Well, that next month or so, we both lost our jobs, got financially in a horrible mess, 3 house payments behind at one point even, and depressed out of our minds because of such. We stopped tithing immediately, mainly because we simply didn't have it. But I remember thinking why on earth would God allow this when I finally got the nerve to do it. I know there was a hidden lesson there. I honestly believe he was trying to teach me a lesson, that lesson being that you did NOT just give WHEN you have it, but I failed that trial cuz I just threw up my hands and said forget it. I was very disappointed to say the least, :( But it amazes me that I can trust God in saving me as He did and taking me to heaven one day but when it comes to the pocketbook, all trust went out the door, :(
I can always trust God for the simple generic things in my life, but moving to specific personal things was a hurdle.
Several years back, God used me to do something very serious (give a scriptural message about sexual sin to someone I did not know). I knew it was not for me, but did not know what to do with it. I was in a 'no way God' response, when He clearly told me in a very loving but stern way, that my obedience was an absolutely necessary ingredient and I better respond! I will not share how He did that...
Six months later I found out the why. Six months later my Faith was lifted to be able to be used by Him for other things at other times. My Faith had stretched by trusting Him.
Tithing was always a struggle until we started paying it first in the list on each payday. There has always been enough ever since.
You're just like those bible-thumping putzes at my school, except your ten years older and a train wreck.
@zodtheimpeccable@xanga - Is it lonely up there on your pedestal?
@misswonderj@xanga - no way. loads of company up here! is your schedule growing wings or what?
LOL above comment :P
@zodtheimpeccable@xanga - I'm going to assume you lack the mental capability to make a decent comment that doesn't scream "omg i'm loneliesss attention whorism FTW "
=)
The one thing in my life that's hardest to trust God with is (and I'm a little embarrassed to admit this) relationships. There have been too many times I've made it my mission to find a guy, and often times I've settled on the ones that don't always treat me right.
The best advice I ever got about that was from my best friend who told me that only when I've allowed myself to be completely satisfied by God alone will I be ready for a boyfriend that will hopefully become my husband. That means going to God with my loneliness and seeking His comfort, not in the arms of a human man, and that has been so hard for me, although I know it's not impossible!
Relationships... Not necessarily romantic but just in general. It is very hard for me to let God open up to people. I just keep working on it. Or rather He just keeps working on me.
@JUSTAVAPORHERE@xanga - It's awesome how you honestly learned something through your trial.
What I have the hardest time trusting God with, is financial stuff. I'm kind of in a financial mess, but I have a hard time just giving it to God.
Powerful and though provoking post . Thanks so much for sharing . Great title too....drew me in and made me want to see what you were saying :) God Bless !
the unkown can be scary but it can also be exciting, I don't much of a problem with trusting God maybe just when people have deseases that don't get treated even after I've prayed for them. But I've know of people who have got healing from God when they were told that they might not make it too.
This is a good encouraging post we all need to pray for God's direction in life. For his hands to be incharge of us.
It was kinda weird to read Romans 12:1-2 without the living sacrifices part or the don't conform to the world but be transformed by Christ part. I've never read the Message bible. I'm not trying to criticize it.
I would like to add some more verses: Humble yourselves,therefore,under the mighy hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you casting all your anxieties on him,because he cares for you 1Peter 5:6-7
my biggest fear used to be that i would never get married. i held on way too long to a relationship that i shouldn't have. even just emotionally after it was over.
i eventually realized that God would never be able to give me my husband if i was this way. i decided to trust that God knew what was best for me... even if that ment remaining single forever. i gave up (the idea of) ever being married, to God. it took some time but eventually i became happy with the idea of being single forever. not too long after i was having a bad day and God revealed to me that I was going to be married one day. i was thrilled but continued to focus on God and not focus on boys. from then on whenever i was attracted to a guy i would praise God that my husband was going to be even better than whoever this current attraction was and go on.about 6 months later i met my (then) future husband. i didn't think about him in a romantic way at all for a while (not that i don't find him attractive because i very much do. i was just focused on my relationship with God at the time. i remember thinking that i didn't even want a boyfriend!). we built a great friendship that turned into something more. i had a lot of confirmation from God. i can not imagine a more perfect man for me. we have been married for over 2 1/2 years now and i fall more in love with him everyday. he is such a good man and he never ceases to amaze me. i am so thankful that i waited and trusted God even when it was hard.
@sarahzthoughts@xanga - God is faithful! i am proof.
I LOVED this part: Sometimes, I imagine God yelling from heaven at me,
"HELLO?!?! You know how great I am, so why aren't you trusting me? I
created the whole world and you still don't think that I can take care
of you and what ever you're going through?"
Hilarious. :) Anyway, I can totally understand what you're saying. The unknown is what makes us find it hard to trust Him! But that's where faith comes in... and I believe that God will reward the faithful. :) Great post.
i want to trust God for everything too... and i'm sooo guilty of taking on a lot of things by myself. thanks for this post. i'll try my best and tell you about it ok? *hug* great post! :D
In God I trust... At least I am still alive and well. That's why...
I guess I find it kind of hard to trust Him with my future...it's kinda of scary! I admit I would love it if He would just come and tell me what I am supposed to be doing, though!
It's amazing to me when I hear newspeople and politicians telling us that people are unsure of the future - which is why we should listen to them. There never has been a time when anyone could be sure of their future in certain terms. Even prophets when they were given prophesies by God did not know the "when" or the "how." We all live by faith - some have faith in faith, some have faith in themselves, some in human institutions, and the wise have faith in God.
Very good post!!
Thank you for your encouraging blog. I have the most difficulty with trusting God for relationships. It seems God has done so much for me in every area but in the area of marriage. I was divorced in 94 and didn't give a thought for marriage. Then two years ago, I met a wonderful woman 15 years my junior ( I am 65, but look, feel, and act 55). It was such a great romance. But it seems to have come to a stop...not on my part, but on hers. I want so much to be a christian husband for her. She was married twice before and was not a christian. Shortly after we started dating, she accepted the Lord, but then it seems she went backward and our relationship started to diminish, until today it is non-existent...yet it seems God continues to keep some sort of tie between us. I can look back and see numerous indications of God working in our relationship, but the unknown is frustrating. I find myself wanting God to either bring it about or let it die so I can heal. However, it just doesn't seem to go away. Trusting and waiting is very difficult...I wish I could get that knowing in my knower that God has it totally under control. thanks for listening!