Tonight's talk is about trust. It's about the fact that God wants us to trust Him.
I used to think that trust is a hard thing to do. I know it's hard to earn, but I thought that a life of trusting is tough. The more that I've thought about it, I think that trusting is easy.
So easy, in fact, that we trust in things and don't even know it.
From the time we wake up in the morning we trust our experiences of previous days. We trust the things that we're taught by others, we trust the things we know to be true, we even trust ourselves. We jump into the trust relationships that we've established with the things and people around us.
Trust breeds comfort.
To establish an entirely new trust relationship is tough. It does take time and effort and relationship of some sort. Whether it's with people or things, it takes time.
Trust is often times the product of crisis as well.
Sometimes we have no other choice but to trust.
As far as trusting God goes, well...that's one that never quite gets as natural as the other kinds that I've been talking about. I do think it get easier with time and as we get comfortable with God and talking about God, it becomes easier to trust.
Take Peter for instance. Spent A LOT of time with Jesus. Jesus spent time teaching lots of people lots of things, but he often took Peter, James and John aside for some smaller group time. Jesus tried to reveal to Peter the reason for his being here and the manner in which he'd be leaving (sort of). Peter told him that he's follow Him anywhere and he trusted him to the ends of the Earth. At the time for everything to unfold, Peter hacks a dude's ear off.
(WAHN WAH)
Hey, we're a family...
...far from perfect...
...but we're a family
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