Trust and Surrender

If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?

Jeremiah 12:5

In the wee hours of the morning I am awake and struggling with the same thing that the prophet Jeremiah was struggling with more than 2,600 years ago, the issue of trust. My life seems to be in shambles at the present time. Our home is on the market and has been on the market for over 7 months now and the light of hope for a potential sale is dwindling with each passing day. My career is in shambles as I am questioning my work environment and whether or not I am where God would want me to be in regards to serving Him in the midst of my job. I have a deep longing to be used by God and to impact and encourage even more people for Him and although there are glimpses of this dream that come in the form of encouraging reports from people He has touched through this ministry, there seems to be a wall of resistance that appears incredibly high and unreachable at times. And yet, even in the midst of all of these things that may seem hopeless at times, I read the words of our God speaking to the prophet Jeremiah and I am encouraged greatly. The Hebrew for the word “stumble” usually means “trust” and in some cases is translated with a more negative meaning such as “reckless”. The thickets were very densely grown brush on the side of the river Jordan that would provide cover for lions who were in it’s midst. The story that God is revealing to us here in this passage is that the battle that we are in has a much larger scope that we could never begin to see or understand and this battle can only be won as we let go of our own strength and our own efforts and begin to trust in our Heavenly Father for the outcome. It is only in trust that we will be able to overcome even bigger obstacles that await us down the road in our pursuit of knowing God and sharing His love to a lost world in need. Trust in Jesus today – lay all of your burdens at His feet and rest in His awesome love and grace.

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