TRUST in God

I know I don’t have to tell you that times are tough for a lot of people right now. There is a good chance you may even be one of those people. I talked to my Grandmother the other day, and she was telling me how she remembers the Great Depression. She told me she remembers her mother and father sitting at the kitchen table crying, trying to figure out a way to keep the family farm and not have it foreclose. As she put it, fortunately the President at the time, Franklin D. Roosevelt put through government programs that allowed them to save it.

What about us in today’s times? What do we have to look forward to? I won’t tell you I know the future. What I do know is that God is in control. The Apostle Paul wrote a letter to the Philippians telling them just that. In (Phil 4:6) it tells us that we are to worry about nothing! Not only that, but worrying is a sin. What we are to do is pray and ask God for all of our needs, and to TRUST God for all of our needs. That is not all. After this He makes a promise (Phil 4:7) He will give us His peace which surpasses our understanding, and it will guard us.

What is most interesting in (Phil 4) is that He says Rejoice always….not just in the good. In our society we seem to think that in good times things will always be good, and in bad times things will always be bad. This down time is just that; only a time. Everything will come back. We MUST look to God in this, for He will provide.

Consider (Matthew 6:25-34). Even Christ himself says do not worry. He tells us to seek after God and His righteousness and He will provide all of your needs (Matt 6:33). These times will pass, and tough times will come again. The most important thing to remember is God is in control of all things, and he will take care of all of the believers needs as he sees fit.

So maybe all of us need to remember that if we are going through these times and there is something we lose or do not have we must not pine away. God knows what we need and He will provide, so if we are not getting it, then maybe we need to consider that it is not needed. After all, as long as we have our faith, hope, and love, everything else is just trivial.