Who do you trust?
That is quite a question I think.
Its kind of makes me laugh at when I think of everything we trust in. Let’s start out with your day and look at what you trust in.
These will be people and objects
Ryan’s Day,
6:30 wake up take Sydney out to pee and feed her
6:30 and 30 seconds-rush from taking Sydney outside to the bathroom because I am about to pee my pants.
6:35 sit and watch Sports Center
6:36 Get annoyed because the dumb dog keeps jumping on the door but I don’t feel like getting off the couch yet.
6:40 try to get to the shower before Taylor does
7:20 Start my shower after Taylor finally gets out
7:23 Get out of the shower and get dressed.
4:30 Go home from work
now I skipped a couple of steps but lets look at everything I had to put trust in.
1. put trust in my house. That its not going to fall and its going to keep me protected and safe.
2. put trust in my toilet that its not going to explode or anything like that.
3. trust my television that it will work.
4. trust that my shower and running water will.
5. trust that my clothes will not be torn and that I can wear them.
6. trust that my wife will not use all of the hot water(big act of trust)
7. trust that I can make it too work without tripping and killing myself.
Those are little things we trust in. But we put our trust in a lot of other things as well.
Things that we trust:
1.Friends(boyfriends, girlfriends) breakup, betraying
2.Family(provide for us, love us)
3.Material things( cars, electronics, clothes)
Problem with putting our trust in those areas is that they can fail us at any time.
Friends-Girlfriends/Boyfriends can betray you, cheat on you, lie to you, talk about you behind your back. EX. JUDAS BETRAYED JESUS
Family- people in your family that love you will make mistakes, will do things that you had no idea about, sometimes will betray you also. EX. FATHER DISOWNING ME, LYING ABOUT MY NEW COMPUTER TO MY STEPFATHER.
Material possessions- Cars break down, televisions break, clothes ware out
EX. RICH GIRLS TV SHOW, TRYING TO USE THIS FANCY GPS SYSTEM IN THEIR CAR. THEY TRUSTED IT TO LEAD THEM TO THE RIGHT PLACE AND IT ONLY GOT THEM LOST.
So man who do we trust!
I don’t make sound very exciting do I? Can’t trust your friends, can’t trust your family, can’t trust the things you own. Who do you trust?
It’s plain in Proverbs 3:5-6
“Trust in the Lord your God with all of your heart, and lean not on your own understanding, in all of your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.”
WE CAN ANSWER THE WHO DO YOU TRUST QUESTION BY LOOKING AT THE WHO, HOW, AND WHY QUESTIONS. FIRST…
WHO DO WE TRUST?
1. TRUST GOD, “Trust in the Lord with all of your heart.”
What does that mean to trust with all of your heart?
This is brought up again in the bible when someone asked Christ what is the greatest commandment, what is the greatest thing we should follow if we only follow one thing, Christ said to love God with all of your heart.
Do you love something with all of your heart. Are you so passionate about something that it just wells up in you. Some are like that about sports like me and OU, some are like that about friends or family.
To love something with all of your heart means you are totally dedicated to it no matter what. No matter what happens you will not back down from it. you desire to be with it, to be consumed by it. all of your feeling and emotions are poured into it. Do you have something like that? Like I said for some its sports, for others its money, for some of you it might be popularity, or your friends.
Christ says to love God like this, to be consumed by him to put all of your emotions, all of your fears, excitements, struggles into him. To come to a place where you love Him so much that no matter what someone says or does to you whether they threaten your life, you are so consumed with love for Him that it would be an honor not a fear to die for him.
The same is with this scripture on trust. We should put our Trust in God alone. Every problem, struggle, frustration, we should trust in God to get us through it.
So how do we do it?
HOW DO WE TRUST?
2. DON’T TRUST YOURSELF. “Lean not on your own understanding.”
Let me clarify. You should trust yourself but what I mean is not to do what we want to do and that is to always try to solve everything on our own.
People always think we know what is right and wrong, what is the best choice to take, or think they just generally know everything. Guys think they know where to go so they never have to ask for directions, Scientist think they know exactly how the earth was created through evolution.
But in reality we know a lot less than we think we do.
Kind of one of my pet peeves is talking to somebody that thinks they know everything and everything. Do you know someone like that? They are out there, that person that is a no it all, they’ve done it all, personally I just think the person desires attention, but it is still annoying.
Well I was hypocritical of this one day during a ski trip…
EX. JEFF EXPLAINING HOW TO SKI/FELL OFF THE LIFT/ ME THINKING I KNEW HOW TO SKI BECAUSE I WATER SKI AND GETTING INTO THE BAD STUFF.
I trusted in myself and my pridefulness. I thought because I had water skied I would conquer snow skiing. My brother in law thought because he had skied once before he was in a place where he could coach me, but in reality we didn’t know anything. We trusted in the wrong thing.
Another way to look at this is how you and I will come into some tough situations in life. We will have to make some tough decisions, for some of you it will be the temptations of falling into sex, drinking with friends at parties, girls you will be told by a guy that he loves you but he wants you to get physical with him to show him that he loves you.
These are all lies, especially the sex stuff, but you will have to decide if you are going to trust your own wisdom and try to get yourself out of it or are you going to trust God to help you get through it.
When you trust yourself to get you out of problems I guarantee you are going to fight a losing battle.
God is the one who can get us through difficult times. The good thing is we don’t have to stress over problems, we don’t have to pull our hair out worrying about choices, God wants us to not trust our own knowledge or our own understanding of things and he wants us to look to him for the answer.
Which leads us to the last thing. Why?
WHY DO WE TRUST?
3. GOD WILL SHOW YOU THE WAY “IN ALL YOUR WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM AND HE WILL MAKE YOU PATHS STRAIGHT.
As I said in our lives you will run into crossroads and you will have to make a choice as to which way to go. If you decide on your own then you have a 1:4 chance of getting it right. But if you let God control your life then you will pick the road the first time.
Sometimes God will show you the path through other people, and if you are not listening to God then you will miss his help and his message and you will end up choosing the wrong path.
There is a clip that kind of helps the point I am trying to make I want to show you really quick.
Video: Finding Nemo Trench Clip
Nemo’s dad was so stressed out and trying to solve everything on his own that he did not trust the other fish when she knew the right path to take and it got them in trouble and hurt.
If you want to make the right choices in life and keep from having your hair falling out because you are stressed with all of the decisions and temptations you will or are facing then Trust in God this week.
ACTION STEPS: I WANT TO CHALLENGE YOU THAT EVERY MORNING FOR THE NEXT WEEK WHEN YOU WAKE UP YOU WILL SAY A PRAY AND ASK GOD TO BE APART OF EVERYTHING DECISION YOU HAVE TO MAKE, PRAY THAT HE WILL HELP YOU TRUST HIM.
WHEN YOU DO THAT GOD WILL LEAD YOU DOWN THE RIGHT PATH AND START TO MAKE YOU THE CHRISTIAN HE WANTS YOU TO BE.
