What if there were a solution to all the problems in the world?
Would you apply it?
Before answering, pause.
Check your heart.
Check your mind.
It is important to do this before we see the result—so that
our response is not shaped by convenience, fear, or disappointment. Decide
first to do what is right. Then listen.
But before we can apply or accept any solution, we must
first trust its source. No one follows a remedy they do not believe in. No one
commits to an answer they do not trust.
And if the Word of God is the source, then trust must come
before agreement. We cannot approach His Word merely to examine outcomes or
measure benefits. We must approach it having already settled that He is true.
If we believe that God speaks truth, then obedience should
already be established before we approach His Word.
Throughout Scripture, we are instructed to love the Lord our
God with all our heart, mind, strength, and soul. We are also instructed to
love our neighbour as ourselves. And we try—oh, how we try—to love our
neighbours.
Yet many times, we fail miserably.
Perhaps the struggle is not our desire to love, but the
foundation beneath it. Love does not grow well where trust is unsettled. And
when our trust shifts toward people instead of God, our love becomes
fragile—easily shaken by disappointment.
What if our failure is not because we lack effort, but
because we have misplaced our trust?
We were never instructed to put our trust in people. We were
instructed to trust in the Lord with all our heart and lean not on our own
understanding.
Perhaps we have been trying to place faith in our
neighbours—expecting them to be faithful, consistent, just, and whole. That
burden was never meant for them.
The answer, therefore, is simple—though not easy:
Direct your trust to God alone.
Place your faith in Him alone.
And concentrate on loving your neighbour.
Whew. That sounds easy…
So how do we actually live it out?
In practice, we get hurt when we are disappointed—when trust
is broken, when promises are not kept. But the truth remains: only God is
faithfully consistent. We humans are masters at unfaithfulness. Even within
ourselves, the flesh wrestles against the spirit, causing us to do what we know
is wrong.
So if we insist on placing our trust in people instead of
God, we will continue to harbour resentment, bitterness, anger, and hatred in
our hearts. These conditions of the heart lead to strife—and eventually to war.
And perhaps this is how the smallest disorder of the heart
grows into the largest conflicts of the world.
Look around.
Our hearts are constantly seeking justice for their wounds.
But when we place our trust in God alone—who cannot lie
because He is not man—our hearts begin to remain in good condition. And a good
heart produces goodness, kindness, mercy, and love.
To love our neighbour as ourselves is to show them Jesus.
Yes—but how is that done?
Jesus answered this Himself.
He said:
Pray for those who persecute you.
Turn the other cheek when struck.
If someone asks for your shirt, give them your cloak also.
To pray for someone is the highest form of love—because you
are bringing that person to Jesus: the Author of life, the Healer, the
Deliverer. You are bringing them to the only One who can give new life and new
hope.
You know you love when you are revealing Christ—when you are
being Christ to yourself and to your neighbour.
And where you fail to reveal Him, ask for help.
He will help your heart.
Because when trust rests in God, love finds its strength.
That is where trust belongs.
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