Do you find it hard to trust at times? To take hold of what the scriptures say as complete and utter truth? To grasp onto it and know that it is the only way you are going to make it through that illness? To trust that need will be met whether financial, emotional, spiritual, or the safe keeping of your child as they travel to that out of state college? Do you trust the God who, 'In the beginning created the heavens and the earth.' Genesis 1:1 Well do you? Do I?
I thought that I had. But after this morning's sermon I realize that I need much improvement in this area. Why do I strive so? I want to have the Faith as: Corrie ten Boom, "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God." or the astonishing faith of Elisabeth Elliot, the widow of the martyred missionary, Jim Elliot. Her undying Faith inspires me immensely. "If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things." And lastly, "We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise Faith." Charles R. Swindoll.
Tonight I knelt down in absolute surrender. No longer will I carry the burdens that weighed so heavily upon my shoulders. My cares have been lifted. It was, no it is that simple! I have not the slightest inkling of what tomorrow brings. I only have today. This exact moment in time. And I am alright with that.
