Trust.

Does God change or do you change? Is God changing for us or are we changing for God? How might God act? What is the nature of God and humanity?

These questions really pricked my theological consciousness.

God is omnipresent, therefore He is in everything. It is up to us to find Him and seek Him out. Everything is a part of Gods plan, but today Christians really do believe in chance. WHY is this? We should trust every aspect in our lives and leave it up to God, knowing that He plans every little detail in our lives. But time and time again we use terms like "luck" and "chance" or "what if?" There is no "what if." Things are going to happen to us in this life, crazy things, we just need to trust that God has got our backs, which He obvi always does.

In an awesome chapter of the Bible, Romans 8, Paul writes in verse 28, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him." This is so true! But sometimes we wallow in self pity, not leaving our hesitations and concerns at the feet of God. I am a firm believer that God gives situations to people who can handle them. Can we comprehend why things happen? No. We can only try, and then trust that it's Gods will. The human mind is finite. I don't get why things happen, I'm not supposed to get it, and I don't have to get it.

A guy from my Christian Ethics class, Connor O'Modhrain, said it perfectly when he said, "the church doesn't need to be a building, it's a body of Christ." If we walk together as a community with Him, we don't have to know all the answers. I often find myself getting frustrated when I don't have the answers that I so badly want to give others and myself, but walking with other Believers helps me to give it up to God and just trust in His plan. 

The book of Jeremiah seems to have a common theme: the idea of trusting in God's promise. God tells His people that he will deliver them and reward them, and all we have to do is wait. What would you say if God asked you to give up your entire life to do something for Him, but you would never be able to experience the results of your life's work? Maybe God isn't asking us to give up everything we know in search of some crazy purpose He has, but there are so many things that He is promising us every single day. He wants us to trust in Him and be patient. This is so hard for us to do in todays culture. We get so many things, whenever we want them and are considered to be a society that lives for the now. 

It's really easy to get caught up in the world and the obsessions we acquire over time. We are loved by a God who planned our existence before we were born and has a purpose for our lives, a special purpose. Sometimes He asks us to wait for the things He has promised us and He might ask us to go through times of hardship and suffering before we can get there. But we were made to be special. Psalm 37 talks about waiting for the Lord and trusting in His promises. We need to have faith that whatever is thrown at us, God will bring good in the end because He is good. God is constant and will never stray from His love for us, regardless of our choices. 

Proverbs 3:5-6 says "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight." 

In Him, 
Courtney