In every Christians life we must learn to trust Jesus Christ for everything. No mater how small or large. Whether it is merely our children learning to ride a bike or our loved one sick, or dying. For carnal man it is difficult to trust in God, we reason that He is just to busy to see our problems for we think they really are. In this assumption (which I have fallen pray to before) we could not be more wrong!
To say that God (the Creator of all that is, the Potter of all things formed) is incapable of recognizing our problems for what we see them as, is simply unacceptable for a Christian to do. To begin with God is all right and we (carnal man) are all wrong. God stated that men are all liars (John 8:44-55; Rom. 3:4; I John 2:4, 4:20;), dare we reply against Him who formed us? The main problem that we Christians face is how we try to make God “measure up” to our standards. In other words the things we fill are important are the things we know God should put higher on His list of trials. We view hardships as a curse, but God knows that the trials we endure while here on this earth are how we glorify Him! Think about it for a moment; Christ, in Matthew chapter five, declared that if we love them which love us, what reward have we (46a). Christ then said “do not even the publicans the same?” (46b). Therefore, if when we are living in “good times” we praise God “what reward have we”? It is here that God is glorifying His people; not his people glorifying Him. However, if during these times of trials or persecution we praise and worship God, then the world will see our lives that we are truly the children of God, and in that God allows us to glorify Him.
Paul ask this profound question in Romans 8:36 and I believe it should be ask in every true Christian home, church, and assembly in the world. He asked, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” We as Christ’s children are going to see pain, distress, and grief in this life (John 16:33), but God commands that we do not doubt His promises; for if we doubt God we are without faith and “without faith it is impossible to please him” (Heb. 11:6). Therefore we, as the elect of God, strive that we might, “In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning” (I Thes. 5:18) us.
Wherefore, we know that as Christians we shall see trials and tribulation. Some of us are going to get sick, and if the glorious and terrible day of Christ does not come soon, the souls of many will become one with those that sleep in Jesus (I Thess. 4:14). For those of us who are still “groaning in travail . . . waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body” (Rom. 8:22) and “the manifestation of the sons of God” (Rom. 8:19) we must remember the question and answer of God asked through the Apostle Paul; “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. NAY, IN ALL THESE THINGS we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” (Rom. 8:35-37).
Therefore, let us hold fast to the faith of Jesus Christ; who, while suffering unto blood, believed that God was in complete control of all things, and prayed: “not my will, but thine, be done.” (Luke 22:42). So saints of God, we must trust Him, for He is God and not man (Hosea 11:9). It is truly vain to trust in man; but he who trust in God shall never be ashamed. |
