Trust

Hello beautiful people!

It's been a REALLY LONG time since I've posted anything and I'm sorry about that.

Update: I am pledging the Christian sorority Sigma Phi Lambda. I just got back a few hours ago from our Chapter Retreat. The theme was being content about every thing. Being content with where you are, what God has given you, where God is sending your, etc. It gave me a lot to think about.


In being content with God we must trust him, so yesterday's devotional was about trusting God. So I'm going to share with you what I got from it.

Scripture: Isaiah 46:4

I will be your God throughout your lifetime - until you hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you. I will carry you along and save you. [NLT]

And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear, even I will carry, and will deliver you. [KJV]

So as I was reading the KJV a few words popped out at me because I have an app on my phone (MySword) that I can get the Hebrew/Greek word and it's meaning. So I used that to better understand the passage and it really made such a great difference.

1. Carry

• transliteration: Cabal (saw-bal')
• to bear, bear a load, drag oneself along

2. Bear

• transliteration: Nasa' (naw-saw')
• to lift, bear up, carry, take
• support, sustain, endure
• to take, take away, carry off, forgive

3. Deliver

• transliteration: Malat (maw-lat')
• to slip away, escape, deliver, save, be delivered
• to let escape
• to give birth to

Using those definitions I reworded the scripture, and half way through writing something came over me and I couldn't stop. It was an emotional feeling and I think God took over for a little while.

Even in your old age I AM GOD! Even with your gray hairs I will bear your burdens - I made you, I will lift you, I will save you, I will deliver you, I will love you, I will hold you, I will forgive you.

What's the Point?
The point is, how many times do we not trust God? He made us. He took us from dirt and put his breath into us. Long before we were even put into the womb he knew us. He knew every step we would take. He knew every mistake we would make. He knew every accomplishment we would have. He took his time on each and every one of us to mold us into the perfect mini ::but our actions stopped us from being a mirror image:: Since God knows everything about us he knows how to get us out of our messes. He knows how to get us through our situation. He knows exactly the right person to place in our life and at what time that connection needs to be made to help us overcome our obstacles. But trusting him with the big things are sometimes easier than with the little, at least in my situation. We can trust God to place food in our bellies or to give us a place to sleep but not trust that the reason he does so is because he loves us.

People in our lives may have skewed what we think love is and ultimately what God is. God is the ultimate love, the ultimate provider, the ultimate friend, the ultimate mate.... God is ABSOLUTE! He is beyond anything we can fathom but yet he cares for us. God doesn't have to do that, but because he is love he does.

The moment that we trust in God's never ending love for us and trust him to be God and do what he promises then we will be content. There will be no need to worry about anything because Daddy and big bro got it with the help of the spirit. Now that doesn't mean that we will always be happy, but he will always provide a joy that we will get out of our situation in one piece. There will never have to be a worry of being shattered and tattered.

-:- PeaceLoveHarmony -:-

God is still Faithful in our lack of Trust

Yes, his anger rose against Israel, for they did not believe God or trust him to care for them. But he commanded the skies to open; he opened the doors of heaven. He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them bread from heaven. They ate the food of angels! God gave them all they could hold. He released the east wind in the heavens and guided the south wind by his mighty power. He rained the east wind in the heavens and guided the south wind by his mighty power. He rained down meat as thick as dust– birds as plentiful as the sand on the seashore! He caused the birds to fall within their camp and all around their tents. The people ate their fill. He gave them what they craved.
        -Psalm 78: 21c-29 [NLT]

Reflection
As I was reading this passage earlier today I nearly cried. How many times do we KNOW that God can do miraculous things and take us out of all our troubles but just can't seem to TRUST that will do it. God is our wonderful father and maker so of course he would take care of us. Not putting our trust in God makes him angry because after everything that he does we still can't see past our human limitations or the devil's rose-colored glasses and know God is far greater than anything we could possibly think of.

What stood out to me was that even though God was so angry with Israel because they didn't put their trust in him, He still gave them all they needed to survive the wilderness. When they were thirsty He had water pour out of a rock. When they were hungry He opened the skies and had food fall to them. He gave them enough to the point they were full, and yet they still didn't trust God.

The world is our wilderness and we have to walk through it each and everyday but God is giving us all we need to survive. No matter who hurt us or the guilt we may feel, God loves us so much that he doesn't unleash his total anger because he remembers that we are mortal and our mortality is rooted in sin (Psalm 78:38-39). His love for us runs so deep that he himself died for us. He laid his life and took on our humiliation. He allowed himself to be mutilated. He allowed himself to be spit on and cursed. The pain he felt while on earth is nothing compared to the love that drove him.

Reflection Song
Artist: Flyleaf
Song: Circle

-:- PeaceLoveHarmony -:-

Birthday Prayer

"I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you..." Lord I thank you for this new year of life you have granted me. I thank you for being so wonderful and loving me despite all my failures. You are truly a wonderful maker and I pray my life is a testimony of that! Love you dad!! <3

Jeremiah 1:5 [NLT]

Just As Hate

I am currently in the process of reading 1 John. 1 John 3: 15 really spoke to me.

Hating your brothers and sisters means you are a murderer and being a murderer means you have no eternal life within you. One step further, hate doesn't just mean to have an intense dislike for someone or something, but hate can also include ill feelings no matter how big or small they are.

Any ill feelings toward anyone in the body of Christ, and also those who are living in the world, will lead you to have a sense of superiority. They may be struggling in some aspect of their life but instead of you helping them find their way, you are just there thinking how much better you are for resisting. By not helping you are spiritually killing them because how can they enter God's kingdom if they are constantly living in sin and don't know how to get out?

How can you truly be humble, like Christ was humble, if you think you are better. Though Jesus was perfect and we were born sinners, he is always kind and humble to us and always putting us first. Jesus has made the direct link to us and his father, be we must act as the link between the world and Christ. But in order to be the link we must be like Christ and have no harsh or ill feelings and hatred in our hearts.

-:- PeaceLoveHarmony -:-

Scripture
1 John 3: 15 (NLT)

Anyone who hates another brother or sister is really a murderer at heart. And you know that murderers don't have eternal life within them.