"Trust in the Lord with all of your heart"....

All of us who are Christians have heard the Bible verse "Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and lean not on your own understanding." But I want to bring focus to the first part of this Scripture.

What does it mean to trust?
Wesbter defines it elegantly with this statement: "assured reliance on character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something."

I have a dilema I guess you could say. Tonight I went to a young adults Bible Study where the speaker I guess you could say was a bit amateur. Though I respect his efforts, his theology and accuracy of Scripture was a bit off. He suggested that if we merely trust in the Lord everything will be hunky dorey.. just trust and go on will life, and you will survive. Now do not be mistaken, there are parts of truths to those statements, BUT there is a bit more depth and insight to what trusting in the Lord truly means.


I will use a human to human relationship as an example. Now... let's say we truly trust in someone. We have a close , close relationship with that person. That means we confide in that person, that we communicate with that person on a daily basis, and there is an in depth confidence and commitment to that person. Now, I am not neccesarily meaning intimate guy and girl stuff... This could be family, friendships, etc.

Now for the thought of the day: Do we have that kind of trust in the Lord? Doesn't that trust mean we have a huge amount of prayer time in our lives? At least it should be a huge amount? To confide and rely on means to communicate with that person. Isn't that what Jesus did? He trusted in the Father completely because there was constant communication. Could our trust in the Lord as Christians be a bit flawed. Without a huge prayer life, I would say yes. There is power in prayer. Prayer renews, uplifts, prepares, and allows us to grow closer to the Father. We are communicating with Him intimately everytime we pray. Our perspective is changed by prayer. Strength is given through prayer. Prayer allows us to trust in the Father even more when we begin to see those prayers being answered. Prayer is a life fulfilled in Christ.

When is the last time we got in our prayer closets? When is the last time we got on our faces and cried out before God as Christ did in the Garden of Gethsemane? There is power in prayer. It becomes so extremely easy to be consumed with the routine and busyness of life. That is what the Enemy wants... He want us to think that oh... I will be okay... I can say my night time prayers before bed.

But it isn't okay, we need to realize what the reality of the fulfilling life in Christ, and act upon it.
Pray without ceasing and gain strength, new perspective, healing, renewal, but ultimately, receive the life fulfilled in Christ through a fervant life of prayer. When we come to that point, that is when we will be able to fully TRUST in the Father without fear and without doubt.


Blessings

-Ava