Trust & Faith

     There are some days when I am so troubled; I wake up in the middle of the night and I feel as though it is hard for me to breathe. This happened again last night. It had been a while since this episode type occurrence happened. I'd say it was due to the lack of trusting God. For the last week and a half, I think I did a good job listening to God, rejected my sense of self and trusting in whatever he said.

----However, I don't think I did last night. I really didn't have peace and I felt troubled. This just isn't the way one should feel if they are trusting God.

 

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

John 16:33

So, I understand that in this world, I will have tribulation (a cause of great trouble or suffering) but I should be able to be cheerful because God has overcome the world. Maybe that's the whole point then...

Trusting God at all times...

even when things look rough

Even when that "same thing keeps happening" and you don't understand why...

 

Even when life seems so different than usual....

 

Trust God.

 

Last night at Bible Study, one of the girls, Sophie, mentioned about the "tree of knowledge of good and evil". Suddenly, as she was speaking, something occurred to me that I had never thought of before.

.... The thing that we seem to struggle most about.....

 

KNOWING WHY...WHAT...WHEN?!

 

Yet, I feel like part of our wanting to KNOW is what gets us into trouble... I just thought about it like this... Adam and Eve were in the garden... they sinned and they knew "good and evil"... then all of sudden because they knew more then they were supposed to they looked at each other and were ashamed

"WHY ARE WE NAKED?!"

 

-All along, it didn't seem to matter- they didn't know. It was just the way it was... nothing more to it.. Yet when they knew the realm of good.. and also of evil... they saw what could be evil.. and then questioned God...

 

So... the best part of life.... is when we can trust God regardless of what we know or don't know...

 

Then we can surely have peace.