Trust Also in Me

Good Wednesday morning! "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me." John 14:1 NIV. We search through our lives for someone or something to trust in. We look to the government for support until we realize that government of the people means that we are only trying to support ourselves. We look to others, but come to see that the other person has problems of his own. We look to organizations, but they are made up of people with problems and coming together sometimes multiplies the problems. We look to our own strength until age or accident shatters our strength. We look to money at times until a financial disaster or the currents of world history prove that faith false. We tend to look in every direction but the right one until every other support has been somehow knocked out from under our worldly faith. How great would our loss be if God did not patiently knock away all of those weak crutches until we looked to the One who is trustworthy?

Later in John 14, Jesus will explain that He and the Father are in fact one. We have one source of comfort, one spring of life, and one help in our time of need. We look to many worldly things, but find only one heavenly being to trust in completely. The trials we face in this world may stagger our faith, but nothing can shake the Rock upon whom our faith is based. Jesus is the Rock of our salvation and nothing shakes that foundation. It bothers me now that I had to look in so many other places first, but perhaps it had to be that way. In the world, the person who finds everything untrustworthy might decide to trust nothing and no one. In finding Christ, or rather Christ finding me, I find help in many places.

My brothers in Christ will move heaven and earth to help others. Those of us with broken down parts might help each other out with the heaven part. In fact, we might not be able to pick up the earth anymore, but we give it a good shove in the right direction. We might become so broken down that our prayer is the only help we can give, but we give it with enthusiasm. Our government is broke, but we the people still give until it hurts. Our time has become a precious commodity these days, but God has all the time in the world. Our strength may seem weak, but our God is mighty. We may be broke or poor, but our God is rich. We may not be able to get there for one who is hurting, but our God is always present. Our hearts often want to be troubled. Jesus gave us the perfect answer for that. "Trust in God; trust also in Me."

To God be the glory,
Bucky