Trust

Trust is having a confidence in somebody who you can rely on to have a fellow feeling with your growing pains and share in the aspirations that God gives, which motivates us to search for His favor, and in turn, gives us hope and an enthusiasm to want to know him more intimately. We need to learn from God, when it is safe to share our dreams and hopes in areas of our lives with others as God is teaching us how to grow up in His kingdom. It is only us having a trust relationship with God which can produce these fellow feelings for each other’s interests. Only people who have truth, honor, and a track record of empathy conduct can be trusted to minister God’s love and grace to a sick and dying world. Only those who are spiritually maturing God’s way can be trusted by God to put the care of His people who He died for under their authority of leadership.

Where there is no integrity there can be no trust. Integrity is defined as a state of being, sound or undamaged. Since all of us have sinned and come short of the glory of God. All of us have been damaged in some area of our lives. It is as we walk in God’s Righteous Spirit that we can on an every day basis be healed and trusted in our relationships with one another. Unless we are hungering and thirsting after God’s Righteousness and not our own, there is no Godly integrity.

This trust must first be deep rooted in our relationship with Jesus Christ. This type of root has nothing to do with living by standards of right and wrong values and us trying to live by any religious standards to find some semblance of righteousness in us trying to become morally sound. There is no comparison between human love verses God’s divine love that can cement a relationship with Him and our relationships with each other.

Proverbs 3:5-6 tells us, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct you path.”

The Hebrew interpretation of trust is to go somewhere in a hurry however, we need to know why we are going there and with a lot of meditation or deep thought. Scripture tells us if we are going to enter God’s courts it must be with praise and thanksgiving. One can not enter God’s courts if they are not acknowledging Him as the Savior, Lord and Master of their lives. Crisis Christianity isnt going to get it done and it is running ramped on the earth at this time.

Let’s define what type of attitude we need to have as far as acknowledging God in our lives and discover how trust takes root in our being. The definition of acknowledge in the Hebrew is very profound.

The first definition is “familiar friend.”

Jesus must be a familiar friend and becoming well known to us and we must have an intimate relationship with Him. We must think very highly of Him and apply ourselves to walking with Him constantly.

The second definition is “advice.”

We must seek His counsel on all of our decision-making, and seek His opinion on our line of conduct in our relationships with each other.

The third definition is “diligent.”

We must not become lazy in our daily walk with Him. It must not become an obligation or chore, but becoming a joyful and delightful experience with passion and excitement.

The fifth definition is “discovery.”

There is created in us a revelation of a person showing us a way of reasoning that supersedes our own human thoughts. We in turn become totally fixed on a hunger for something we cannot find in our everyday experiences of life,

The sixth definition is “endure with.”

As this process takes place, we must allow ourselves to become pliable, teachable, and submitted to changing our thoughts to GOD’S THOUGHTS. As we experience His grace, (unmerited favor), it empower us and allow this attitude in us to take place.

The seventh definition is “awareness”

There will become a conscious knowing and growing encounter with a person you cannot see with your physical eye. The spirit in us becomes assertive and active, and it begins to direct our lives. We begin to seek and hunger after this relationship with this person morning, noon and night.

It is my firm belief through my own growing pains and my countless encounters of sharing my hopes and dreams with others in looking for God’s perfect will for my life that, we all start out seeking God for our needs to be met and live as alms people and never know what rights and privileges we have as being God’s sons and daughters. An alms person is always living with the mentality of being a poor beggar having to have their needs met by others. There is no deep rooted assurance taking place in them of their total security and trust in a living God who is in constant pursuit to give then their legacy and inheritance as His children.

I sometimes think as I read scripture and live with a hunger to know God better, what was it that motivated the people of Jesus day to follow Him? I can come to no other conclusion but that, they started following Him because they first saw in this man called Jesus an attitude and empathy that caused them to trust Him and they opened themselves up in their hearts because, He listened to them and came to feed and heal them in soul and body. When you think about it, there were only three people who stuck with Him at His most trying moments as He hung on the cross. They were His mother, John the Apostle and Mary Magdalene.

I am sure that these three did not have the attitude of alms people. I believe they had gotten past the attitude of what can Jesus do for me and had grown up to have a fellow feeling with His pain at this most crucial hour in His life. I want to be sure by the Holy Spirits leadings that, I would have not cut and run and can be trusted by God when the going gets rough.

Scripture says, “We have to learn to die to self.” If we stay in our childish ways, it can become a very strong addiction in our lives and a hard road to hoe as we end up never becoming grown up adult Christians. If we have a half hearted commitment, there is no way we are  going to defeat the untamed beast with in us. True heart change comes by a love relationship between God the Father and His children which brings trust and wholeness to the believer.