Trust Your Father

I marvel when I think about how much torment fellow humans suffer at the hands of “health care providers” without complaint. While managing a health care facility for 6 years, I frequently tried to cheer patients who did have complaints, with the idea that physicians invented the term “patients” to describe the people who were patiently enduring their services. I had little problem convincing them.

There is usually a stark contrast between the level of trust we have for professionals whose processes are causing us pain and the level of trust we place in the hands of Yahweh in our lives at times of pain. The difference is that in one case we have faith to believe that there is a purpose in the pain, but in the other case, we think that either the pain is random and pointless, or that it is punishment for our poor behaviors.

Even if all we can muster in the presence of pain is presumption, our expectations from our Father should be to presume that He would never harm us, even though His blessings are sometimes painful. To instead presume that Roman Catholic Mythology is true, and the Father of Jesus is mad at us and might even hate us, is a tragic insult to the God Who invented love, and suffered with us so that we can rejoice with Him.

Trust Him, without fear.