TRUST

We may not always have clarity during trying times but we should always have trust.  In seeking clarity we are tempted to cease from trusting God, to step from “being” back into “doing.”  But, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.” I can see this godly man, called blameless by his God, setting on the trash dump scraping his oozing sores with a clay shard and thinking "Lord, whom have I but Thee.  Only You have the words of eternal life."  We must trust Him.  There is a tension between the will of God and the promises of God, between what is and what is to come, between the day to day and the supernatural, between the seen and the unseen.  And we often don't know the way.  There's a tension in the unknown that will come if we allow it, but this tension opposes trust.  So if I perish, then I perish, so be it!  But I will trust God!  Stop now, still your heart and listen to your spirit commuting with the Holy Spirit of God.  What is it that you hear echoing down the corridors of time eternal?  It's a multitude of saints, the general assembly and church of the firstborn shouting "Amen!  So be it!  Trust the Lamb of God for He is worthy."  Join with them now, shout it out aloud -- "HE IS WORTHY"!  He who put my wandering feet in His stocks, and keeps close watch on all my ways, tracing my footsteps one by one and setting my boundaries lest I wander too far --  it is He that keeps me, for I am truly His (Job 13:27). He who holds my life-breath in His hands and controls all that happens to me -- it is He who keeps me and I will trust Him (Daniel 5:23).  Come life or stingless death -- I will trust Him. FOR I AM MY BELOVED’S AND HE IS MINE, SO I CAN REST ASSURED, BECAUSE I BELONG TO HIM!