ITS A QUESTION OF WHO IT IS WE TRUST?
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
Who is it that you really trust? If I really had to choose one thing that I know I could trust it would be the loyalty of my little dog Piper over everything else in this world. It is not because she brings me anything that I must have in my life, but she keeps me in a stable frame of heart as I live this life. I have been privileged to have several little dogs in my life that have shown me that kind of loyalty and love. I have had people too that have shown that kind of love to me when I did not deserve it, and it is a very humbling things to experience.
In the last part of Matthew 6: 28-33 Jesus deals with the last part of this issue we have with worry that I just wanted to touch on which deals with the idea of who we can trust the most in our eternal life? I find that the greatest part of trust must be built upon relationship. Matthew 6:25 essentially tells us that the same God who created us can be trusted to take care of the real details of our life. In verse 26-33 Jesus speaks about the idea of our worry over tomorrow hampering our ability to deal with things that matter today. It becomes more harmful than it does helpful to worry over these things that are coming. Jesus tells us that the Father does not ignore those who trust and depend upon Him.
Worry on our part shows a lack of faith in God and understanding of what He is trying to tell us. There are some real challenges that God wants for us to pursue; like that of making a decision about how we want to spend this eternal life we have been given. We don't seem to understand that the kind of thing that we consider to be death is not what God considers to be death. There is an appointed time for each of us to die physically to this life, but that is not the death God refers to. God refers to real death as being without any contact for all eternity with Him; no protection or love given from Him to us, and no claim or salvation ever given to us. Our existence without God's involvement with our lives is the second death that Jesus refers to. We are living in a time when confusion is all around us constantly about both what life and death really are. The last verse of this chapter verse 34 tells us to not worry about what we cannot change; which is tomorrow for tomorrow has enough trouble of its own. For me the trust that we place in what ever we believe in must come through the relationship we have developed with it. Can we trust those things which we have placed our trust in? Have we ever seen signs in those things that have caused us to wonder if our trust is place in the right place? Have you ever known God to fail to keep His word to you when He has given it? I pray that you will consider all of this in the decisions you make about your eternal life. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
Who is it that you really trust? If I really had to choose one thing that I know I could trust it would be the loyalty of my little dog Piper over everything else in this world. It is not because she brings me anything that I must have in my life, but she keeps me in a stable frame of heart as I live this life. I have been privileged to have several little dogs in my life that have shown me that kind of loyalty and love. I have had people too that have shown that kind of love to me when I did not deserve it, and it is a very humbling things to experience.
In the last part of Matthew 6: 28-33 Jesus deals with the last part of this issue we have with worry that I just wanted to touch on which deals with the idea of who we can trust the most in our eternal life? I find that the greatest part of trust must be built upon relationship. Matthew 6:25 essentially tells us that the same God who created us can be trusted to take care of the real details of our life. In verse 26-33 Jesus speaks about the idea of our worry over tomorrow hampering our ability to deal with things that matter today. It becomes more harmful than it does helpful to worry over these things that are coming. Jesus tells us that the Father does not ignore those who trust and depend upon Him.
Worry on our part shows a lack of faith in God and understanding of what He is trying to tell us. There are some real challenges that God wants for us to pursue; like that of making a decision about how we want to spend this eternal life we have been given. We don't seem to understand that the kind of thing that we consider to be death is not what God considers to be death. There is an appointed time for each of us to die physically to this life, but that is not the death God refers to. God refers to real death as being without any contact for all eternity with Him; no protection or love given from Him to us, and no claim or salvation ever given to us. Our existence without God's involvement with our lives is the second death that Jesus refers to. We are living in a time when confusion is all around us constantly about both what life and death really are. The last verse of this chapter verse 34 tells us to not worry about what we cannot change; which is tomorrow for tomorrow has enough trouble of its own. For me the trust that we place in what ever we believe in must come through the relationship we have developed with it. Can we trust those things which we have placed our trust in? Have we ever seen signs in those things that have caused us to wonder if our trust is place in the right place? Have you ever known God to fail to keep His word to you when He has given it? I pray that you will consider all of this in the decisions you make about your eternal life. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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