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The Promises of God Pt 3

Learning Trust

Prov 3:5 Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.  (AMP)

In my last Blog I said we would be looking at how to live out the promises of God. As I’ve thought about it, I realised that we must first be absolutely sure that we can trust Him. We must remove as many obstacles as possible that stand in the way of this trust. Therefore I want to look at trust from the angle of God being our Father, and we, His sons.

Many of us struggle to trust God because our earthly fathers were less than perfect in  their love and training us in the right ways. We must not condemn or judge them for this. They acted out of the light they had received from their fathers. We are now ‘new creations’ (2 Cor 5:17) and  have broken the sinful generational line and started a new one. Our fathers may have failed us, but now we are in Christ we can make the necessary changes for ourselves, and our children.

When we became ‘born again’ we took the idenikit picture we had of our earthly father and superimposed it onto our heavenly Father. Subsequently, we relate to our heavenly Father in the same way we relate to our earthly father. Therefore, if our earthly father rejected us when we did wrong or made a mistake, we expect our heavenly Father to reject us and thus break the tie of trust.

Our heavenly Father is a ‘perfect’ father, so let’s stand back and compare him with our earthly father:

1) ANGER – If our father disciplined us out of anger and said or did wrong things, it will leave a wound that needs healing. Prov 22:8
tells us that, ‘the rod of his anger will fail.’  (NKJV). Hence, his dysfunctional anger came to nothing and left a broken trust.

Under the O.C. (Old Covenant) God as Father was ‘slow to anger’ when Israel failed or disobeyed Him. But if they persistently broke His laws, His anger would break out in great wrath and the death of many of His people would follow, or, He would eject them from the land to serve as slaves to a foreign nation (Num 14:36,37.  Jer 25:11)

But under the N.C. (New Covenant) we find a reversal of God’s behaviour. On the cross Jesus exhausted all of God’s anger and wrath against the sin of the whole world, past, present and future. Praise the Lord! No matter our weaknesses, sins or failures, God is no longer angry with us. In fact, He promised that under the N.C. of grace, He would no longer remember our sins (Heb 8:12) The word ‘no’ in the Greek is a double negative strengthening the declaration.

Instead, when we fall short, God’s new declaration to us, is, Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. (Heb 4:15,16. NKJV)

First, God’s mercy has forgiven our sin, and secondly, His grace gives us the help we need at such times. Boldness is the opposite of fear. We no longer need to fear an outbreak of God’s anger and can come boldly and confidently to Him for help.

This one fact alone will strengthen our trust in our heavenly Father.

Meditation Point: Thank you Father that you no longer become angry with me when I fall short. I love to come boldly to You at such times, knowing You will give me the help I need.

Ps 107:8 Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, And for His wonderful works to the children of men!  (NKJV)





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