Trust God Always

The psalmist speaks rather matter-of-factly when he says, “Trust God at all times, you people. Pour out your hearts in his presence. God is our refuge” (Psalm 62:8). He doesn’t say we should consider trusting God, or weigh the value of it. He doesn’t tell us to give it a lot of thought. He just says do it. Trust God at all times. We may complain that’s not always easy, but he still says just do it, because he’s convinced God is near to those who trust him.

Today I want to share a poem from Susan W. N. Ruach. It’s called A New Way of Struggling.

To struggle used to be

To grab with both hands

and shake

and twist

and turn

and push

and shove and not give in

But wrest an answer from it all

As Jacob did a blessing.

But there is another way

To struggle with an issue, a question –

Simply to jump

off

into the abyss

and find ourselves

floating

falling

tumbling

being led

slowly and gently

but surely

to the answers God has for us –

to watch the answers unfold

before our eyes and still

to be a part of the unfolding.

But, oh! the trust

necessary for this new way!

Not to be always reaching out

For the old hand-holds.

Facing Uneasiness

In his devotion, "Lent for Everyone," N. T. Wright defines biblical faith as "faith in a God whom we believe at one level to be all-seeing, never-sleeping, omnipresent, and omnicompetent – but who, at another level, seems, from the perspective of our muddled and messy lives, to have gone to sleep on the job."

If you are facing some uneasiness that is frightening and worrying at the same time, why not do what Christ's disciples did years ago. When a big windstorm blew up on the lake they were on, they roused Jesus from his sleep. "'Teacher!' they said to him, 'We're going down! Don't you care?'" At that Mark says Jesus got up and told the wind to switch off (Mark 4). Perhaps he's ready to tell your disturbance the same thing.