The Unknown Road
- heartsinger1
- Jun 3, 2020
- 2 min read
Trust is ethereal, evident, fragile, and stronger than titanium.
Truly a paradox.
Hard to earn. Easy to lose.
Given too quickly and you become a fool, a victim to charlatans.
Given too late and you lose a once in a lifetime opportunity.
But with God it should be different. Because God is trustworthy.
He is a proven entity.
The problem is that faith in God is required first.
Even faith in God doesn't make trust any easier for the day-to-day struggles.
Faith is usually relegated for the big questions:
Is there a God?
Does He love us?
Was Jesus really God's son?
Did Jesus death on the cross really save me from the consequences of sin?
All these questions seem to affect the After Life more so than this one.
But trust is about here and now:
Does God answer prayers?
Will God protect me from evil?
Can I trust God with 10% of my wage when I'm struggling financially?
Should I follow God's leading when it is oposite of what others are telling me?
This is where the rubber meets the road, as the saying goes.
Fenelon encourages us to:
"Pray for strength and faith enough to trust yourself completely to God. Follow Him simply wherever He may lead you and you will not have to think up big plans to bring about your perfection."
This past year I've been on a journey to find my dreams again. Dreams in the seven key areas of my life: Fitness, Finance, Family, Field (career), Faith, Friends, and Fun. I've written those dreams down and listed goals to help them become reality. In essence I'm thinking up big plans.
However, when it comes to my spiritual journey; daily taking up the cross and following Christ, with a view to be made like Him, I am helpless. Flesh cannot accomplish what only God can do.
Just ask Abraham and Sarah.
Ishmael was their big plan.
Isaac was God's.
Margaret Becker's beautiful song, Just Isaac, is a vulnerable look at trust in hard to understand situations.
I guess it comes down to one question:
Do you want to become more like Jesus?
If you answered yes the only way is trust God in all things.
The Unknown Road
TRA Eissfeldt
I want to see the road ahead
But Jesus bids me trust
Blindly?
Without instruments
to map the way?
Without a five day forecast
to plan the wardrobe?
Trust enough for
just today
just one step ahead
into the fog
the dark
Into His arms
With eyes jammed tight
Breath imprisoned
I try to move toward
Him
Paralyzed
Jesus bids me
Look up child
Try again
With eyes fixed on Him
Breath exchanged with His
One step released
I am free
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