The Trusting Process

I look at my progress in my relationship with God in two categories:

1. Trusting Him
2. Doing what he says.

I give myself Fs in both categories. I hope he is grading on a learning curve.

In trusting him, I am so guilty of moving before he makes his move. Then once I do, and see what kind of a pickle Ive gotten myself into, I tend to be quite embarrassed. I always say I will wait on him next time, but seldom do.

To trust the unseen is to believe like you have nothing to lose. In my ideal world that I have here, I have so much to lose, risking it on God, seems impossible. Trusting God really seems like an option. In places like third world nation, I don't believe its the case at all.

I know people who've been to poverty stricken nations, who really have seen cripples walk, and the blind see, primary because, they only have Jesus to help them. Here in the states, we are a nation surrounded be so much of our own creation that trusting God seems like something archaic.

I pray I never get rich in the American sense, and I pray I never have to live in poverty in a global sense. I pray I don't live like I've got nothing to lose, but to trust Jesus like I do.