Renewed Trust

My responses to situations should be sourced in the fruit of God’s Spirit, not the works of my flesh (Galatians 5). That is basic.

Those who trust Yahweh will be blessed. Those who don’t, won’t even see blessings that come close. Trusting Him is allowing patience to work with faith.

When I can’t see what is next. When things go wrong and I wonder if its my fault. When people I trusted turn on me and devour me, or disappear and abandon me. I need to trust Yahweh.

It can’t just be that I make a simple decision and its all settled. I make a good, faith-empowered decision, but then I am confronted with the pain again, or another insult, or one more thing breaks, or I wake up again and nothing seems to have improved. In each of these situations, I must decide once again to trust Yahweh.

Patience makes me able to respond with faith over and over and over, no matter how many times I seem to have evidence that trusting Yahweh isn’t helping.

Be patient. Let patience have her perfect work in you, and you will be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. That’s faith working with patience.