Trust

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
Ps. 143:8

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.

Ps 52:8

For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth.

Ps 71:5

The only way we can ever be happy in our relationship with God is to trust him completely. We must be able to say with Job (13:15a), "Though he slay me, I will hope [alternately translated "trust"] in him." Doubt and anxiety shows our lack of trust in God--our lack of surrender to His Will. We must lay ourselves in His hands in trust, obeying His desires for our lives. In order for God to make us effectively, we must be soft and pliable to His hand; if we are hard and inflexible, He will have to soften us, breaking and melting us to His specifications.
Too often we have a hard time trusting that God's will, God's timing is right, and like Abraham and Rebecca we want to get our own hands in there to shape the mold of our lives. Too often we complain against the Master Artisan--"You're making a mistake there, God, I should be painted a different colour, I need a handle here, and I really don't think that blobby bit there is going to do me much good..." All our denial of His vision for our lives will make it more difficult for us to finally to submit to His will.
Our doubt, anxiety, and refusal to trust completely in God is just as much sin as disobeying His commands. By refusing to trust that God knows what He's doing, we imply that He is untrustworthy, i.e., fallible, and in so doing, deny His very divinity.
Failure to trust God is very serious indeed!!

The Finish Line

Be"Leaf "

Our Charge is Love

The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

1 Timothy 1:5

Allure my Heart

Allure my heart, O Lord,
To Thy own desert land;
Be Thou its surest ward,
And cage me in Thy hand.

All haggard, I, and flee
Thy mews I would, yet still
Thy Word my creance be,
And man me to Thy will.

Rebellious, I might fly
Against Thy jesses, Lord:
Oh, hood and hold me nigh,
And make of love a cord!

(c) Petrel Marijn 2008

Prayer

Another old Hymn/poem from The Hymn Book, No. 98:


Lord, be thy word my guide,
In it may I rejoice:
Thy glory be my aim,
Thy holy will my choice,

Thy promises My hope,
Thy providence my guard,
Thine arm my strong support,
Thyself my great reward.

~ Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885)

Treasures in the Wilderness