It’s So Sweet

I was just reminded of this song, “Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus.”  Casting Crowns sang this song as well as many other artists.  This is where I am in my life at this time and I am so thankful to the Lord for revealing this to me at this particular time.  Sometimes I think we can be deceived into thinking we trust Him but all we have to do is take a long hard look at ourselves and what we have and how we spend our money and how much created debt we have and where we go and the things that we do and how much time we spend with Him and if we are putting His Word into practice or just going through the motions.  It is easy to say, “Oh how we trust in Jesus,” but what happens when a crisis comes up or we come up against situations or circumstances that we don’t foresee and have no control over; do we trust Him in those situations or do we get angry at Him for allowing these things to happen in the first place?  

What about this part of the song, “How I’ve proved Him ore and ore?”  Are these more words than anything else or have you truly trusted Him and proved Him in your walk with Him?  I have trusted Him and He has proved Himself so many times through the years, to me and my family and I can’t thank Him and praise Him enough for that, but I know that I have let some things come between Him and me for quite a while now and that has hindered our relationship.  I remember what a close relationship I had with Jesus and how sweet it was and how many times He blessed me and my family.  At the time I prayed continually and my prayers were being answered left and right, you might say, and I had a wonderful relationship with Him.  

Then I guess I started taking Him for granted and little by little things seemed to unravel and I started letting other things clutter my life.  It seemed that He started distancing Himself from me and my prayers were becoming more shallow and fruitless and less frequent and because of my error, which I call sin, my faith began to dwindle and instead of trusting Him I started blaming Him for my problems.  All this time I was deceiving myself, thinking everything was ok.  The more you allow things to come before the Lord in your life, the larger the separation between you and He becomes.  In the meantime you allow the evil one to whisper in your ear that the Lord doesn’t love you or He is not to be trusted.  Don’t think for a minute that he doesn’t use people to discourage you with their negative talk and their lies that they believe, which just edges you on when you are in this situation.  In the meantime you have a tendency to become very negative and to believe man’s report instead of the Lord’s report.

Remember Job’s three friends and how they accused Him of sin and couldn’t say anything good about him.  Who do you think brought them around?  I use this as an example even though his case was different than mine.  Job wasn’t guilty of sin but I was and the evil one will take advantage of every opportunity that he can.  He comes to kill, steal and destroy and is a liar and a deceiver and will stop at nothing to destroy a believer’s peace and joy and their relationship with the Lord and make them feel like they are alright, until the final blow.

Remember Adam and Eve?  They had a real close relationship with the Lord, they walked with Him in the cool of the day and what a beautiful place they lived in that God had provided for them.  God withheld nothing from them but one tree in the middle of the garden, telling them they could not eat of its fruit or they would die.  Remember they were perfect, without a sin nature at the time.  Then along came a serpent and deceived Eve by lying to her and then Adam chose to take of the fruit also.  Who do you think was behind all that?   The evil one, of course, which brought about curses and separation from God and the loss of the beautiful garden they lived in.

Where does a majority of fear, anxiousness, stress and worry in a believer’s life come from?  I think one big factor is this; it stems from a lack of faith and trust in the Lord!!  It is easy to say you trust in the Lord but examine yourself and see who you really trust in.  Maybe you need to do some confessing and repenting like I have, and let me add this, I have always spent a lot of time in the Word and in prayer, thanking and praising the Lord, but this deception can happen so subtly that you don’t even notice it is happening.  I am so happy to say that since I have confessed and shown by my actions that I have repented by making some needed changes in my life, I have had some breakthroughs lately and the Lord has been answering my prayers once again.

Confession and repentance always open the lines of communication between God and man because He never despises the humble and contrite heart; in fact, He resists the proud and draws to the humble.  Don’t despise the Lord’s correction, He is trying to tell you something and it also shows that He loves you.  I have given you something to think about.  I hope you won’t take this Tidbit lightly.  May the good Lord bless you and yours and may you have a great day!!