God in a Box: Faith and Trust

Many times, we humans think that we can put God into a box. We try to make a "box" out of our minds and fit God into that box. We feel we must understand and figure out everything there is to know about God. Well, I've got news for you...we don't have to understand God. We don't need to know everything there is to know about God. He will reveal to us what we need to know about Him when we need to know it. All we need to know about God can be found in the Bible. What we need to do is trust Him.

Faith and trust go hand-in-hand. We cannot have one without the other. When we have faith in God, we are trusting that He will do what He promises. We are trusting that He is the one true God. When we trust God, we have faith that He will keep His promises. God desires us to trust Him with all that we are. When we trust Him enough to give Him every single part of our lives, we will receive the blessings He has specially designed for us.

Psalm 37:5-6
"Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun."

Proverbs 3:5-6
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight."

~ Peace

The Ocean of Life

Reading Hope's last entry made me think of how life can be like an ocean. An ocean is calm and peaceful, beautiful even. But often, that beauty and peace is replaced by anger and terror. The storms that sweep across the oceans strike fear into even the most hardened sailors. Life can be like that sometimes. Imagine your life as a harbor, an inlet of the sea. You feel safe, the water is calm and beautiful. Your life flows just the way you want it. Many times a storm appears and hits your beautiful harbor. Sometimes you can see the storm coming and prepare for it. In those cases, the damage is minimal. But most times, the storm hits your harbor before you know what has happened. The winds howl, the water rises in tidal waves, the beaches of your harbor are beaten down to almost nothing. During these times, you have a shelter to run to. Sometimes you make it, sometimes you don't. But always, the storm ends, you can return to your harbor and build it back up, hopefully more defended against the next storm that comes your way. I would like to leave you with a song to listen to: "Sometimes He Calms the Storm" by Scott Krippayne -

http://www.actionext.com/names_s/scott_krippayne_lyrics/sometimes_he_calms_the_storm.html

~ Peace