I have been thinking a LOT lately about trust. and Love. How they are tied together and work together and you just cannot have one without the other.
Tonight I had a chat with one of the kids:
kid: can I go spend my points?
me: what time is it?
kid: snack time
me: so its not game room time right?
kid: no, but can't I just go get it myself?
me: no you sure can't
kid: yes I can, you just don't trust me
me: (to myself, no kidding, but how does he know that?) um, well you have a point there buddy, either way, you can't and you will have to wait till after snack time.
kid: can I help?
me: (WHAT!!!) sure, go wash your hands
The fact that he knew I did not trust him was profound to me.
And, yes, he could for sure go ahead and help himself. I am quite certain he would have spent exactly the amount of points he had.
I think this is how God must think sometimes. Yes I can do that in your life. But you just don't trust me. I can do anything. Will you trust ME?
I am at a new place in my life. New roads. Roads I never thought would open. Its scary. Things in life you Never thought were possible suddenly opening up and you find your self losing your breath. Its this really happening? It feels like the moment, when your flying, when the wheels leave the tarmac, before actual flight takes over and you wonder for a second....are we really going to fly? Or better yet, when your on a ride at an amusement park and just as it takes off....that two second moment of terror before you drop or fly.....when time seems to stand still.
Do you trust ME?
(insert slow-mo hair freeze framed just before the big drop on drop zone before I thought I was going to die)
Romans 8:31
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? 33 Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; 34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was [l]raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. 35 Who will separate us from the love of [m]Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Just as it is written,
“For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;
We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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