Do you trust He will get you through?

In life, it can be really easy to say that we trust God with everything. But how often do we live out our words and actually trust him? Anyone can say they trust God, but do we really? The English word for trust is abstract. We cannot sense it through our five senses, it is merely a feeling. But if we look at the Hebrew translation of the word, we see a more concrete action by which we use one or more of the senses.1 Here are a few translations from the Hebrew. Chasah- to lean on something. Betach- to cling to something. Yachal-to hope for. This word is more than just a hope. This is walking through life not hoping something will happen, but knowing something will happen and living accordingly. This type of trust is where I want to be in this journey called life. Sometimes we use trust as a crutch to put our weight on, We find example of this in Psalms 18:2, The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, in whom I trust. When we see God as our rock, it is easy to simply lean on him. But this should only be a starting point. This level of trust might be where we are at the beginning of our walk, but we should only continue to grow as we grow with God. I like how ancient-hebrew.org describes the next level of trust found in the word Betach. This form of trust is to cling to. The website explains this as a melon attached to the vine. The melon is big and heavy, yet somehow the vine is still strong enough to support it as long as it takes for it to fully grow. This illustrates that no matter how big our problems become, the vine is still capable of holding onto them. John 15:5 describes God as the vine and we are the branches. When we stay attached to the vine, we will bear much fruit. In the same way we bear fruit, we also grow bigger, more fuller fruit, fruit that satisfies a bigger desire to stay with the Father. Finally we get to the third translation of trust found in the word Yachal. In this spiritual strength, we walk in such a high trust that we know God will come through for us in ways only he can. This type of trust can be found in Psalms 42. god is trying to stress this point into us so much, the same verse is in this chapter not once, but twice. Verses 5 and 11 read as this," Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God: For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God". I believe this is where god wants us to be in our walk. To live in such a way that we do not hope out of fear that God will move, but rather walking with a security knowing that God will come through. When we walk in this trust, we begin to see God move in powerful ways.

These past couple of weeks has been challenging for my faith. I have had to grow my trust and faith in the things that God has said. And I will be the first to admit that it is not easy giving everything to God when my flesh wants to run the show. It is in these times that God wants us to trust him fully. He doesn't want us on the fence or only halfway committed. He wants us to be fully hot or fully cold, for if we are lukewarm, he will spit us out. I know for me, that I don't want to be spit out of God's strength. We have to realize that if trusting was easy, it would not grow us in our faith. Trust would just be another thing to throw around and we would really have no need for it. Without out trust, we would rely too much on ourselves and would not bother giving anything to God.

"This will be a week that I change your sheets! Don't try to rest the same way you've rested in the past, for I AM remaking your bed to rest in. Know that I AM causing your house to be reordered and redirecting your steps. And because your bed is being made, stay focused and up with Me, until the breakthrough is seen in your life."- Chuck Pierce, Glory of Zion Ministries

This might not seem like anything to some of you, but this really stretches me. I may not know what is coming, or what God is going to do, but in this small passage, he is saying stay focused. Keep your trust in the Father and he will come through. In ways only he can, doing things only he can do. God knows what he is doing, and how he is going to bring it about. He is simply asking us to trust him with the details and let him take care of the rest. With Man, nothing is possible, but with God, everything is possible. Trust that if he has brought you to it, He WILL bring you through it.

Adam Semple- a young man on a mission from God.

   1 ancient-hebrew.org