Proverbs 3:5,6 reads: 'Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.' KJV The writer of the Provberbs tells us that, right now, we are to trust our Lord and God with any and everything in our lives. This call to trust is nothing new. In all places and at all times in the history of man from Adam until now, it is God's basic command, as recorded in His Word, that people trust Him with their selves, and their lives, and their stuff. This will not change in eternity or for eternity to come. Heaven will be heaven because its inhabitants - face to face -will engage in unending and unbroken relationship with their life's source. God, however, wants His children to live a life of victorious trust in Him now. Jesus proved that in this sinful world you can live a life of trusting faith in and acceptance by our Heavenly Father. Jesus - the New Man, the New Creation, the Beloved of His Father - lived a life of total and unbroken relationship with our Father rigtht here in the midddle of our sinful, fallen universe. The good news of the Gospel is just this: when, because of God's grace and through the faith that He gifts me with, I am in Christ I can trust in the Lord right now as well because it is not me trusting, but Christ in me, 'our hope of glory.' In Christ, Christ's trust is mine, Christ's faith is mine, Christ's peace is mine, Christ's hope is mine. In Christ, Christ's relationship with 'Our Father' is mine - for He is in me and I am in Him - All because of Jesus! I can truly relax in Him, knowing the rest that He promises to all who will trust.

Posted by Steve Mounts at 8:29 AM

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