May newsletter

 Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought. People who "worry their prayers" are like wind-whipped waves. Don't think you're going to get anything from the Master that way, adrift at sea, keeping all your options open.  -James 1:6-8

Trust is a funny thing.  It always seems to be on one of those scales with two plates that are moving up and down depending on the object on each side.  Trust or faith reside on the one side.  The other, well it is something most Christians don't talk about, or if they do it is called something other than doubt.  We like to disguise it with chatter.  We like to talk about our situations more than we pray about them it seems.  Words upon words.  Sentences upon sentences.  It seems to run on and on.  We always seem to have a word for other people when they are going through things.  We have some Christanese to share or some clichéd phrase that we've been taught to regurgitate.  There are times when people need to be reminded about things. 

The word trust is so relative.  What looks like trust to me could look like doubting to you and vice versa.  I was talking to my Dad the other day about doubting and he told me about a devotional that he had read that said that when you start doubting God and the plans He has and His word that you move into a different world.  The enemy begins to get a foothold and starts planting seeds here and there of doubt and discouragement and we go into a new world.  It becomes a world where we start questioning ourselves.  Our faith turns stale and rigid and it dries up and dies.  Our love turns into hate.  Our mercy for others around us turns into resentment and wondering why this happens for them and not for me. We start looking at the here-and-now and fail to remember Scriptures like I. Samuel 7:12 where we are reminded that "To the point where we are right now, the Lord HAS helped us."  If you want an indication of what God is going to do, look at what He's already done!  

May we realize that there has to come a time when we stop searching for the answers.  We must stop asking for a way out and we must begin to trust God where we are and just let Him have His way.  

Before they call out, I'll answer. Before they've finished speaking, I'll have heard.  -God (Isaiah 65:24)

Wait passionately for God, don't leave the path. (Psalm 37:34)

-Pastor Andy