WHEN TRUST IS AN ISSUE
Brother James, OIC
Pro 3:-6Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Someone you’ve trusted has betrayed your trust, and now you have trouble trusting at all. It could have been a parent who was less than a parent should be, a co-worker, an employer, a friend, a family member, your child, your teacher, your husband, your wife, God?
Trust issues go down into the very core of your being and once damaged become very hard to heal and trust again. Fear of trusting can leave one isolated, alone, paranoid and fearful. And sadly many who have been betrayed in their trust have a hard time trusting again. Their end result is not trusting God Who is absolutely trustworthy once you learn to trust His Will and not your desires.
One of the greatest evils that have worn a cloak of recovery is that you can have a God of your own understanding. This alone turns your isolation into an independence apart from the True God.
But before you turn to the issue of How To Trust God you need healing for the damage betrayal has caused in your life. This healing will come from God Whom you will learn to trust in Christ Jesus.
Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
In order to find that rest you must learn about the True Risen Savior. And your approach to Him should be to know He isn’t religious nor judgmental, nor hateful nor unforgiving. In fact He loved you so much He took your and my infirmities and sin into His Body on the cross paying the penalty for our transgressions thus delivering us back into a loving relationship with God the Father. To know Christ is to know His Love:
1 Corinthians 13
The Greatest Gift Love
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Jesus was filled with this Love. It is a fruit that can grow in your life bringing with it healing a healing paid for by the punishment Jesus took for you and I.
1Pe 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Now here is the crux of the matter: living unto righteousness. That is the righteousness of God (not the self righteousness of religion) that is GIVEN to us through Faith of Jesus Christ.
Php 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Please note that it is through the FAITH OF CHRIST And Christ had absolute Faith which is absolute TRUST in God the Father.
The next thing you must know is that GOD DOES NOT BREAK HIS PROMISES! Sometimes you will have to wait on them PATIENTLY but you can TRUST they are yours. To begin growing in this Trust you must grow in Faith.
Rom 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
The Word of God is Jesus Christ Who was the Word made Flesh:
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Gods Promises are in His Word Jesus delivers them to you and they cause you to become a partaker of Gods Divine Nature (see 2Peter 1:4, 2Cor 1:20) , a Nature wherein is Light, Love, Trust, Healing and Joy immeasurable.
