This Christmas, I have definitely been doing some pondering, praying and thinking about what Christmas is about. An insight that came to me in this process was the amount of trust. Let me explain. Mary trusted that God had a plan in allowing her to be the mother of Jesus. Joseph trusted the same way. The Shepherds trusted the word of the angels singing in the heavens about a baby born in a stable, and immediately hurried to Bethlehem. If you didn't have that level of trust, do you just up and leave your job, your sheep you are supposed to be tending, to go see a baby? Or what about the Wise Men? They traveled a long way (how far, we're not sure) to see a baby. Why? They trusted that the new star in the sky was the fulfilling of a prophecy.
So where does that leave us believers, some 2,000 years after the birth of the Savior of the world? Do we have that level of trust? I know some days, I start off with a high level of trust in God and His plan, and 5 minutes later, I'm not there. I pray daily that God would allow me that level of complete and total trust in Him. The past few months for me have been an opportunity to see His hand. We've been blessed in ways that cannot be imagined or explained other than God's provision. And so it's been my opportunity to remind myself that while money seems tight, things break and there's the ups and downs of life, God provides in His own unique way, in His own unique time. Just as in His own unique way, there was no fanfare for the world to know the Savior, the Son of God, entered the world to redeem it, just a beautiful serenade by angels to Shepherds in the field. It's one of the qualities of God that I am so intrigued and amazed by. His unique way of doing things. But the funny part is, it's not unique. It's perfect. It's just not the way I think things should be done!
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Trust is so often something that we're missing in our lives - it's the basic element of this thing that we call "faith". Thanks for this post Craig, it's awesome.
Jay, it's funny. We have faith in regular, everyday things, but we don't always think about it as such. We have faith that when we put the key in the ignition and turn it, the vehicle will start. We put faith in so many things like that, but the most important thing, yet sometimes, the hardest thing to do is to put our trust, our faith in God. And it's not like it's a surprise the He provides! If you read a few pages of the Bible, or live your life, you realize that God provides! We just have serious issues with short-term memory!
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