SCRIPTURE: John 16:33 (TM)
I've told you all this so that trusting me, you will be unshakable and
assured, deeply at peace. In this godless world you will continue to experience
difficulties. But take heart! I've conquered the world.
STORY as shared by Tim Hansel:
One day, while my son Zac and I were out in the country,
climbing around in some cliffs, I heard a voice from above me yell, "Hey
Dad! Catch me!" I turned around to see Zac joyfully jumping off a rock
straight at me. He had jumped and them yelled "Hey Dad!" I became an
instant circus act, catching him. We both fell to the ground. For a moment
after I caught him I could hardly talk.
When I found my voice again I gasped in exasperation:
"Zac! Can you give me one good reason why you did that???"
He responded with remarkable calmness: "Sure...because
you're my Dad." His whole assurance was based in the fact that his father
was trustworthy.
OBSERVATION:
Trust allows us all to become overcomers. We can overcome
our fears. We can overcome our hesitations. We can overcome our low
self-esteem. We can overcome our anger. We can overcome our lack of confidence.
Since Jesus overcame the world, we too can become overcomers … if we trust him!
Trusting Jesus is like little Zax in the story above. Zac
trusted his father because he had discovered that his father was trustworthy.
Zax could live his life full tilt, no holds bar, full speed ahead because he
had found that he was safe in the arms of his father. Children really do not
need a good reason to do what they do … they just do it … especially when trust
is involved. If a child feels safe then they can conqueror the world.
Therein lies the lesson for us Christians. God, our father,
has proven himself to be trustworthy. Need proof? Just look around our life and
the facts speak for themselves. Oh, yes, trouble does find our doorstep.
Illness and the pain of death does come and visit us. But when all is said and
done our life is much better than we could ever imagine. God is trustworthy.
Need more proof? Just look to the cross of Jesus, the empty tomb of Easter, and
the giving of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost.
God is trustworthy so therefore, we can live our life with
complete abandonment, all out, full throttle … and Christ is right there beside
us to “catch” us when we jump!
PRAYER:
God it is a good thing to be able to trust you with our
life. That feeling cannot be compared with anything that the world can offer
us. So here we go … we are jumping forward into life! Amen.
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