Trust - January 7, 2008

Good morning! This morning I thought of trust. The Lord commands our trust in Him. Why do you think this is? The one sin that comes up repeatedly in the Old Testament is idolatry. This seems to anger the Lord faster than any other sin. The first commandment bans idolatry, and so does the second, and even the third commands us to keep the name of the Lord holy by not taking His name in vain. Bowing down to an idol shows that we don't trust in the Lord. The people of Israel and Judah heard it from the prophets, trust in the Lord, obey only Him. However, they continued to revert back to their idol worshipping ways and eventually the nations were lost. It appears from my Bible study in the Old Testament that we are called to trust and obey God above all else. A person will rebel against someone he does not trust, therefore obedience shows our trust in God.

The fourth commandment tells us to rest on the Sabbath and keep it holy. That too shows trust in God. Some of us think that we must work every day. "Things will fall apart without me if I don't go in on Sunday!" I have been guilty too, thinking that my writing practice, which will begin in earnest very soon, must take place on Sunday. It does not, and I need to trust in the Lord. We seem to take trust too lightly these days, much like the world takes the Lord's name too lightly. Trusting in someone that you cannot see, hear, or feel in the physical sense is difficult. Yet the very things that we can see, hear, and touch are those things that we know are not trustworthy, and that God has told us explicitly cannot be trusted. The sun, moon, and stars will not always be here, the Earth will pass away, even people and governments will pass from scene at some point. The list of things that we cannot trust can go on for pages, but we don't need to go over all of them. There is only one being to place our trust and hope in, God the Father and Jesus His Son. Jesus said it to His disciples, "You trust in God, now trust in me." and later "I and the Father are one." Placing our trust in God acknowledges Him as our God, the Creator who loves us and sent His Son to die for us. The world may tell us to trust in retirement funds, or governments, or a hoard of money and stuff, but we know that all of that will pass away, sometimes in a moment it seems.

Trust in the one true God,

Bucky