Isaiah 12:2-6
This week is "Finals Week" for many of our high schools, colleges, and universities. It's a time filled with lots of stress due to getting projects and papers completed, all-night studies, improper eating habits, and general nervousness about taking exams.
Yesterday one of the students I work with came back from a one week break due to surgery. He came back to school just in time to take his finals. I asked him if he was worried about taking the tests, especially after taking a whole week off and not benefiting from the class reviews we had in his absence. I smiled and chuckled a little when he said, "No worry, I got this" I asked how he could be so calm, to which his reply was "I just have to trust I know what I need to know."
Trust. It's a tricky word, but one that is necessary to bring peace. I want all of you in a committed relationship to ponder this: Would you be able to sleep at night if you didn't have complete trust in your partner as he/she lay next to you in the dark?
A complete trust in people removes a lot of the fear that is associated with mistrust. As in the case of that student, he was completely at peace while taking the tests because he trusted not only in himself, but also that the teachers would not put anything on the test that was meant to "trick" him. What would happen if we put that same kind of trust in our God?
God wants us to know that we can put our trust in God, and to help make this point God sent us Jesus who lived a life in complete trust of what God's plans for him were. In fact, Jesus trusted God so much that when the time came for Jesus to give his life he knew God would be there on the other side.
I guess the question for us to ponder today is just how much trust do we have in ourselves, in each other, and in God?
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