That Silly Mistrust In Your Heart

Today is merely one beautiful point on the long spectrum of your existence. The best awaits you in the future.

Sovereignty never takes a holiday.  The fathomless, inexhaustible God over all does not sleep when you sleep.  He doesn’t even nap.  God never turns His attention from you in order to place His omniscient focus on the needs of another.  He has never overlooked a detail, missed a deadline or gone through the motions halfheartedly.  As God acts on your behalf, He does so in the full might of directed omnipotence as He accomplishes His eternal purposes day in and day out.  This is the same God who created everything from nothing and called it good.  It is He of whom Paul wrote in Colossians 1:17 that “in Him all things hold together”.  This is the God who raises the dead and also executes the proud.  He is the Lord over creation, the Architect of the ages and the Master of all there is.  He is God and owner of anything and everything you can conceive.  He needs no permission from man, is obligated to nobody save Himself and has declared that everything He ordains and does is good.  Banish the lies of Satan which insinuate that He is not for you.  Kill the lying voice which hisses that He’s too unpredictable to trust today.  Place a gag-order on a world system which speaks doubt into your soul concerning whether or not your hope in Him is well-placed – to whom else would you turn?  I say again, He is God and He has made you the object of His infinite care.

“Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; for You I wait all the day long.” – Psalm 25:5 {ESV}

You must remember that His full plan for you only appears in segments before your eyes.  He has withheld the ability for you to see the full spectrum of His workings on your behalf – that ability belongs only to those in Heaven who have no doubts concerning whether or not God’s plan for them was good and right.  All His works are not obvious in an instant.  At times, the portion of His plan which is being lived out by you seems painful, frightening, lonely and cold.  Keep walking.  Keep moving. Keep clinging. Keep yielding. At other moments you will not be able to deny the goodness of God as what you are experiencing is healthy, happy, pleasant, empowering and fruitful.  Remain small.  Remain dependent.  Remain humble. Perhaps what needs to be learned repeatedly by God’s children is the art of being as He: faithful, no matter what is occurring before our eyes. It seems that when life is difficult, we are tempted to change from confidence to anxiety.  When life is full and carefree we often stumble and become forgetful and independent of His lordship.  Is it any wonder that Paul taught us in 1 Cor. 4:2 that each one of us must, above all else, “be found faithful”?  Let us learn faithfulness before we allow our hearts, minds and wills to yearn for something more.  Faithfulness is an attribute of the Almighty which allows us to trust in all His other attributes.  He can never change on us…why do we so often on Him?

Live out the portion of His plan that is yours today.  Yesterday’s will not return to you.  Tomorrow’s is not here yet.  Today He is going to be faithful and good towards you and this is merely one day among multiple thousands you have already lived and, perhaps, thousands more which have yet to come.  Ask Him for perspective and hope which comes from a broader view of God and life.  Your staring at a microdot will swallow you – step back and put this season of your life into the context of all else that you have experienced.  God is faithful, I tell you.  Past, present and future are all connected but you cannot live out your past or future today.  He has entrusted you only with the preciousness of this present hour.  Know that He has saturated it with His goodness and will season your heart accordingly.  Nothing has changed, so put away that silly mistrust in your heart and taste and see that the Lord is good.