Trust...we don't have much of it. Whether it's in friendship, marriage, work, or our relationship with God.
Oh, sure...we trust that our couch is not going to fall through the floor when we plop down on it. We trust that the bristles on our toothbrush won't fall out when we put it to our mouth. We trust that there will always be a spring, summer, fall, & winter...
But will there?
In Ecclesiates chapter 3, God promises that there is a time for everything. "a season for every activity under heaven". So we know that there WILL be seasons. God isn't just speaking of the weather.
He's talking about life.
.
He mentions a time to be born...a time to die. A time to plant...a time to uproot. A time to tear down...a time to build up. A time to kill...
And a time to heal.
A breach of trust kills. But God heals. In fact, God is the only One who can ever truly heal.
Trust is fragile. And it's something that God takes seriously. He wants us to trust Him in everything. In every season. But...there are always challenges for us to overcome in order to trust God. We must walk with Him daily, even when the hurricanes of life devastate, and we barely know our own name. We must communicate with Him daily, even when we struggle to make sense of those hurricanes. We must communicate with Him daily...period. God never promised that life would be easy. In fact, while He promises that life happens in season, He includes the downers of life...tear down, kill, uproot...die. We mourn these events. We hurt. We die in certain aspects.
Which reminds me of why we experience death in the first place. Death of a friendship...death of an idea or dream...death of a marriage...death of a way of life. So many times, we experience these deaths due to lack of trust. Do you trust that your friend will truly care about you? Do you trust that your dreams are reasonable?...that your idea of life is achievable? Do you trust that your spouse will always keep your best interest at heart and stay loyal? Do you trust that the way of life that you love so much, will always be there?
Let me stress to you, friends, that the only One we can trust for ANYTHING is our Creator. Every other person that you ever encounter in life, no matter how dedicated, will disappoint you. No way around that fact. Sometimes we're disappointed in how someone reacted to us, or we feel that our trust was misplaced. But sometimes, it means the death of a relationship and/or the way of life we know.
We may never know the answers to why our trust in others is broken. Of course, when hurtful things happen to us at the hands of those we trusted, we have no other option than to withdraw any ounce of trust in that person. Understandable...completely. But there is Someone we can never make the mistake of pulling away from. Someone who has NEVER broken our trust. Someone who may cry with us, when our heart breaks, but is not knocked off His throne or surprised by any season under the heavens.
The ultimate form of Truth, He is.
God.
He knows every detail of every hurricane that has ever come into your life. And guess what? He is still on His throne. He is still in charge. He has not forgotten you. In fact, He saw the bad weather coming long before you actually experienced it, and has, in ways you may not realize, even prepared you for it. And if you'll have the faith of a mustard seed, He'll speak to you more loudly than the winds of the howling hurricane. And you'll have more peace than you could ever explain.
Remember that in the same verse of Ecclesiastes, God promises us that there are times to be planted...a time to be born...times to build up...
And times to heal.
As my beautiful friend off of Ebay (Pam Coxwell) reminded me today...
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