LORD in every and all circumstance

I believe that trusting God is the foundation of everything.  It was very difficult for me to actually trust Him.  I had, had my trust deeply broken and it was more than frightening to invest in anything again.  But trust is the one thing God requires.  Yes, we are called to obey, yes, belief is paramount, but the foundation to it all is trust.  

Do you trust Him?  Know this, if there is anything between you and Him... He will require it of you.  Think of the rich young ruler (Luke 18:18-23) What holds you back, your dreams?  your job?... your money?  Your children?  If you lost them all, would you still trust Him?  Or will you put Him on trial asking, "If You really are a "good" God, how could you let this happen?"  At the end of the day, who really has the reigns in your life?  God, when He is behaving and you when He is not?  Or God... in every and all circumstance?

You can know when your trust is in Him. When you trust God, your knee jerk reaction will be similar Job's, "The Lord gave and The Lord has taken away, Blessed be the Name of the Lord." Job 1:21b  That's tough to say when you just lost your leg in a freak accident or when your child is diagnosed with terminal cancer.  or... is it?  Aren't those the very best times to cling to Him and know that He is your one constant.  The one you know you can trust during the terrible storms.  If we have truly surrendered our lives to Him... can He not then do with our lives whatever He pleases?  If He does what in our mind is the unthinkable, do we immediately question His goodness or perhaps the goodness of our faith?  Is that trust?  

If we trust Him, we trust Him.  He is good though there are things we can not understand.  Is He capable of intervening and stopping that accident from taking our leg or healing our child.  He is... no doubt capable.  Sometimes,  though He can, He doesn't and somehow that doesn't change His goodness or the value He sees in you.  

If Jesus is truly LORD in our lives, then isn't everything we have His?  When we take Him on as LORD... in the very beginning of our walk with Him, we give up control and entrust Jesus with our lives.  I'm thinking of an old hymn we used to sing.  The chorus says this, "I surrender all, I surrender all, all to thee my blessed Savior, I surrender all.  Can we sing that today? Is all that we have, all that we are and all we can become in His hands?  I wonder if we are giving this as our gospel message.  Lay your life down, with no reserve.  Give up your "right" to the throne upon which you sit.  Step down, die to all the power the throne gave you and let a new King reign in your stead.  One who is worthy of all praise, honor, and trust.