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| We must be like the little children to enter the Kingdom Of Heaven |
God has promised to meet all
our needs. He has promised to defeat all our enemies. God has told us to Trust
in Him with all our heart, all out soul, all out mind and all our strength. The
results of trusting in God are clear and proven. Why is it so hard? We
certainly have experiences in our own lives, which are direct words from God or
a good result that we experienced because we trusted in God. Why is it so hard
to do all the time?
Tonight I was reading the
book of Judges where God tells Gideon to take out the armies of Midian. The
Lord Himself visits Gideon. Gideon still tests God with the fleece, twice. In
the first test, the fleece is soaked. The ground around it is dry. The second
test the fleece is dry, the ground around it is soaked. The Lord visits Gideon
and Gideon still tests God!
Abraham and Sarah did not
believe when God told them directly that they would have children. Sarah
laughed at the thought; she was very old and long past normal child bearing
years. Abraham took Sarah's servant girl and had a child with her thinking God
could not keep His promise any other way. Abraham thought he had to help God.
Abraham and Sarah did have Isaac. The descendants of Abraham and Sarah were
more than the sand on the seashore, just as God had said.
I think, why I do not trust
God as God commands us too. He is a loving father; He gave His son so that I
might have the gift of salvation. I know this and yet I do not trust that He
can provide. I have been the witness of miracles. Why do we call them miracles,
if we depended on God, miracles would be purely common occurrences.
Let us talk about Noah. God
tells Noah it is going to rain there will be a flood, build an ark. Noah may
not have ever seen it rain in his entire life. Noah trusted God and spent years
building the ark, while his "friends" harassed him. Noah built this
massive boat. The ark was 437 feet long, &2 feet wide and 43 feet high. The
ark weighed about 14,000 tons. It was a big boat. It held about 125,000 animals
the size of a sheep or larger. It also held Noah's family. We are told in
chapter 6 verse 9 of Genesis we: "Noah was a righteous man, blameless
among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God." Then in
chapter 6 verse 22 the Bible tells us: "Noah did everything just as God
commanded him" Noah was not perfect he was human, with human doubts and
frailties.
The prayer the “Our Father,”
which Jesus taught us, says: “give us this day our daily bread.” It does not
say weekly or monthly provision the prayer says “daily bread.”
I think the message is to
trust God one day at a time. Matthew 6:34 tells us; “...do not worry about
tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of
its own.”
This is the message trust
God from the bottom of your heart one day at a time. He will provide all our
needs.
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