April 3, 2020
FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY TRUST GOD?
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes, fear the Lord and depart from all evil. It will be health to your flesh and strength to your bones.” Prov.3:5-8,NKJV.
If ever we needed health to our flesh and strength to our bones, it is now in the midst of this combined pandemic of a coronavirus + fear+ lack of trust. We forget, even as we like to say “God is in control,” that God uses divinely calibrated-and-controlled trials to test, develop and perfect our faith and trust in Him, not on our own understanding neither in finite institutions of men.
“When we are hedged about in every side [just like right now], this is the time above all others to TRUST in God (in Christ) and in the power of His Spirit. The exercise of living faith means an increase of spiritual strength and development of and UNFALTERING TRUST. It is thus the soul becomes a CONQUERING POWER. The obstacles placed by Satan across the pathway of the [genuine] Christian will disappear before the demand of faith: for the powers of heaven [the Godhead] will come to his aid. ‘Nothing will be impossible to you’ [if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, Matt.17:20].
“It is His purpose that we shall learn to master difficulties. Often we are tempted to falter before the perplexities and obstacles that confront us. But if we hold the confidence [and trust in God] steadfast to the end [Heb. 3:14], God will make the way clear. SUCCESS will come to us as we struggle against difficulties [as Jacob struggled, Gen.32:22-32]. Before the valiant spirit and unwavering faith, great mountains of difficulty will become a plain.”(Adapted from PP 584-5).
Think trust, not trouble. Lean not on your own understanding of this coronavirus pandemic. Trust God for it is health to your flesh and strength to your bones! NMF