Pastor Rick Hudgens | Big
Enough to Guide my Life
Sunday/Jan/2010 13:27
I am learning that no matter where you and I find our
self in life, we can learn to give thanks to God. There
have been days in my own life as I’m sure yours,
that I have wondered what God was doing, why I was in
the position I was in. There have been days in my life
where I have certainly questioned God and wondered if
He was sure He knew what He was doing. Perhaps I could
do it better on my own. What I am learning is that
people in Scripture, people in history, people in my
present life had it bad, too, and they all found a way
to understand the will of the Lord. Here is a favorite
passage about knowing God’s will:
Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the
will of the Lord is. Ephesians 5.17
We must understand that God who has redeemed us will
direct our steps. There are times in our life when it
seems like we wander from wilderness to wilderness, not
really knowing where we are going or where God is
leading us. There are times in our life that God must
bring us to the edge of despair before He can give us
hope for the future. There are times in our life that
God must bring us to the edge of hunger before He can
fill us. There are times in our life that God must
bring us to the edge of desperate thirst before He can
pour His spirit on us. We may not think that God has
been directing our steps but it has been His desire to
birth within us a hunger and a thirst for His
satisfaction; for His goodness. There is nothing in
this world that can ever truly satisfy the spirit
within us but God our Creator. Perhaps it’s time
that we start thanking God for our wilderness
experiences. Maybe we should start thanking God for the
hunger and the thirst that He has so desperately tried
to create within us.
Source:
http://healingchoice.org
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Pastor Rick Hudgens | Big
Enough to Trust
Sunday/Jan/2010 13:37
What is blind trust? Good question. Blind trust is when
you put your total, and I mean TOTAL, FULL, ALL,
EVERYTHING trust in God. But what most of us do is we
give the problem to God for a little while (or only
give certain parts of the problem to Him - hanging onto
parts ourselves!), and then when things don't go the
way we think they should, we run and get our problem
back! And, when we do this, God CANNOT work! Maybe what
we want isn't coming as soon as we think it should. Or
things are not going the way we hoped. Or we try to
help God along-boy, what a mess!!
Asking God for something is like using a credit card:
When we ask for something, we "give Him the card". As
long as He has it, He can work. But when we "take it
back,” for whatever reason, He has to stop
working and wait for the "card" back. And when we try
to help God out, we wind up with the "card stuck in the
machine"-and nothing gets done until we get our hands
out and let God work! But now he has to fix the "mess"
we made before He can start!
Blind trust is like a horse in a burning building.
First you must cover the horse's eyes before you can
lead him out. Sometimes God doesn't explain what's
happening to us or where He is leading us-When He does
this, we are to blindly trust that HE knows what He's
doing! If He were to explain it to us, it might scare
us (just like the fire would scare the horse!) and we
wouldn't follow His sure leading.
God loves us and wants to help us with ALL our
problems. All we have to do is LET Him! Even the little
ones matter to Him-He wants to help! And we know that
God is all power and all knowledge-So stop and think:
How much better off we would be if we put our TOTAL
trust in God and let Him do for us what HE knows is
best!
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