It's been a really long time since I last posted! I've been super busy settling into graduate school life, but I absolutely love it. It feels amazing once you start falling into the path that God has laid out for you. In this post, I want to focus specifically on a really scary word: Trust.
For some of us, trust is extremely hard to hand out. I know for me, it's been nearly impossible. I would definitely blame certain things in my life as being contributing factors for my lack of trust, but in reality, trust doesn't have to be that difficult. Some of us have been betrayed in friendships, romantic relationships, job situations, and other important times in our lives. Opening up your heart can be one of the hardest things in the world to commit to. However, that's what God calls us to do.
We can't expect our life to run smoothly if we're fighting to trust God. God shouldn't have to earn our trust. Think about it: God gave us everything. He gave us a beautiful world to call our own. He has given us an opportunity to be great because we are His creation. Best of all, God sacrificed the most important thing to Him, Jesus Christ, so that we could be blessed with an intimate connection to God and a way to eternity with Him. Isn't that pretty great? So why in the world would we feel so distressed to trust God?
I know we've all been there. Something happens and your first reaction is, "God, why? Why me? Why now?" and then we feel betrayed because this certain thing in our life didn't go like we wanted it to. This eventually turns to anger towards God, or resentment, or pure frustration because we can't understand God's ways. However, the point of the whole thing is not to necessarily understand God, because that's impossible. God is far too fantastic and perfect for us to wrap our heads around. The point is to TRUST God despite our inability to understand Him. As a human being, this is crazy. We desire understanding, we constantly need to figure things out. But with God, we have to stop and surrender to Him and what we can't fully comprehend.
Trusting God can be difficult at first. It goes against what comes easy to us. The first thing I suggest is prayer. It's okay to ask God for help, especially in these sorts of things. God wants to help us whenever we ask. Don't be ashamed to ask God things like, "God, help me love you better" or "God, I'm struggling to trust you. Please help me to trust you even when it may be difficult, and help me to believe that you have my best interest at heart". I know this was difficult for me. I felt ashamed to ask God something like that. Honestly though, we should never feel ashamed to ask God for things like this in prayer, because let's be blunt--God knows everything about us. So, He already knows that we're struggling with it! Prayer is our way of intimately communicating with God, so use it!
Within the past few months, I have begun truly making changes in my life so that I can better trust God. Since I have, I have felt so much more at peace with my life and have noticed things smoothly occurring in my life. Even if I have something that's an annoyance come up, I tell myself, "It's okay Lauren, this is all a part of God's plan for me" and then my stress is gone. Trust is one of the key components of living a Godly life and a life of spiritually. God desires our trust and deserves it completely. It won't happen overnight, but prayer and an open heart will make it much easier.
So with that I shall now scurry off to do wonderful graduate school work. God Bless!
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