God I Trust You, But...

But what? Seriously....BUT WHAT?

"But let me see if this way would work..."

"But I am afraid..."

"But I don't know..."

"But how do I know this is the right thing for me?"

We as believers have to train our minds to cast out these "but..." thoughts. All those thoughts are meant to do is keep us from fulfilling our purpose that God has put us on this Earth to complete. If it were meant for us to know everything before it happened, what would be God's purpose? Why would we need him? One of my favorite gospel songs is actually Marvin Sapp’s “You Alone Are God.” That song expresses everything that we as believers should feel about God’s work. In the song, he sings “there‘s no question of your greatness, no searching of your power.” Isn’t that amazing? He’s just telling us that GOD is GOD. Period!

Trusting God is something that I feel that we all as believers struggle with regardless to how deep we are in our faith. I was raised by a strong God fearing woman and one thing she has always told me since I was a kid was that God's strength is made perfect in our weakness. If we want to get technical, in 2 Corinthians 12:9 he says "My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." Trusting God requires faith and not a lick of doubt. We also have to realize that trusting God may not always mean that we will get what we want out of it, but pray that God's will is done. Trusting God means that you truly have to "Let go and let God.” It’s not easy trusting God because we want things done when we want them done, but God’s timing is perfect so there’s no need to rush. In fact, when we try to rush and operate on our own timing we fail and make it harder to get where we desire to be.

The earliest time that I can say that I had to trust in God was when my grandmother had to have emergency open heart surgery when I was 12 yrs old. The cardiac surgeon gave her a 5% chance of survival going into the surgery, but that same surgeon said out of her own mouth "but I serve a God that can turn that around." That comforted my whole family in itself knowing that my grandmother's surgeon was strong in faith. At 12, I was taught to trust in God, praying every single day in the hospital chapel with my sister and cousin that my grandmother would be okay and survive this intensive surgery. Guess what? She survived and lived a solid 3 yrs after the surgery before passing away from other health complications.

We bring unnecessary stress, anxiety, and pressure on ourselves when we try to take on God's job. Relax and let God do what he does best and that is take care of his people. This has always been hard for me to do myself as a believer, too! Especially when it comes down to money, since I take care of myself financially without much help, but guess what? God has put some amazing people in my life that are more than willing to help out if and when I fall short. He meets my need before I even express it to him or others.

I'll give you another example to prove my point even more. My final semester in college, I worked 3 jobs while taking 18 credit hours. How I managed to pass all of my classes when sometimes I couldn't even make it to class because I was working to pay for school and my upcoming anticipated graduation....ALL GOD! I went through so much that semester, literally passed out at work and was rushed to the hospital to find out that my heart was pumping at an abnormally fast rate. I was immediately put on medication that people with hypertension were supposed to be on, even though I did not have hypertension at all. I had several visits to the cardiologist throughout the semester and as I was sitting in the doctor’s office I would look around and see that I was the youngest one in there by a long shot. I mean everybody’s grandmother and grandfather would be in there and there I was, at 21, stressing myself out so much behind something that God had already worked out beforehand. Needless to say, I finished my final semester with a 3.4 gpa, finished college with a 3.2 overall. Graduated on May 19 and started a job in my field on May 28. Once again, his strength is made perfect in our weakness.

Next time you think "God I trust you, but...BUT NOTHING...GOD I TRUST YOU" and leave it alone. We're so quick to say out of our mouths "Oh God's got me!" Now it is time to truly act as if he does.

Here's a song that my sister used to sing in the youth choir:

Let Go, Let God

"I couldn't seem to fall asleep There was so much on my mind Searching for that peace But the peace I could not find So then I knelt down to pray Praying help me please Then He said you don't have to cry 'Cause I'll supply all your needs As soon as I stop worrying Worrying how the story ends I let go and I let God Let God have His way That's when things start happening I'll stop looking at back then I let go and I'll let God have His way

There so much going on Sometimes I can't find my way And often times I struggle Struggle from day to day I have to realize that it's not my battle It's not my battle to fight I have to know if I to put it in His hands That everything will be alright As soon as I stop worrying Worrying how the story ends I let go and I let God Let God have His way That's when things start happening I'll stop looking at back then I let go and I'll let God have His way"