TRUST – WHAT OR WHO
Much has taken place in the months since I wrote and published my last post. In some ways it’s like I have been marching in place going nowhere but reality tells a different story. I feel numb and wonder if I am experiencing a nightmare. All the while I am hoping, if it is a nightmare, it will eventually end. I cannot explain or make sense of what I have experienced the past two years. It seems that nothing is being done to restore order or sanity. Lawlessness and lies have pushed aside, at least for the time being, the rule of law and truthfulness. Those committing these atrocities seem to have no regard for right and wrong or the destruction they are causing our country and citizens. I have come to the conclusion that part of the reason I feel as I do is because much of what I believed about my government has changed, and not for the better. The America I love and served in the military to protect has changed dramatically. My freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution and Bill of Rights have been stripped from me, leaving me reeling in disbelief. Those charged with the responsibility of leading our nation blatantly disregard and refuse to obey our laws. It has lead to nothing short of anarchy and distrust of our government. Friends and family members have become enemies, tearing apart families and friendships once cherished. Seeds of division are being sown and the very fabric of America is under attack. Trust is being destroyed. Broken trust is difficult and sometimes impossible to regain. I am asking, and perhaps many of you find yourself asking, what or who can I trust? Is there anything or anyone left that is trustworthy?
All of this has resulted in a deepening of my relationship with Jesus Christ. My prayers are more focused and more frequent. He is my unshakable rock and I am learning to trust him more completely. He has seen me through these months of questions and disappointments! He is always with me and only a whisper is needed to draw Him into my sometimes anxious and seemingly impossible life situations. Trust is built one life crisis at a time! Mine has been a relationship which has grown deeper and deeper over forty five years. The Lord has never broken trust nor given reason not to trust him. There is peace in my life in spite of the chaos going on around me. I trust the One who is trustworthy. I can testify He can be trusted because of His faithfulness to me! He loves each of us, you and me, with a kind of love only He can give. It completes us. It fills the empty longing we all experience which only He can fill.
I suggest two portions of Scripture which speak to His faithfulness and confirm what I have personally experienced; Jeremiah 31:37 and Psalms 36.
May the Lord Bless you and keep you, may He make His face shine upon you and give you Peace!