Life is not always fair. People are not always fair. The world and people are at times very cruel. Life does not always go the way we have planned it to be and we get very disappointed . The world we live in has taught us to believe in ourselves and follow our hearts and yet we still get disappointed. On every side we are bombarded with self-help techniques : " 7 steps to success " 5 ways to get your boss to like you" "20 keys to unlock your dream" "Your best life now" etc.. etc. In spite of this we don't always get our way. In fact we were not created to move on our way but we created to run on Gods way. If we still believe in ourselves and follow our hearts , we will never be eternally happy . True happiness is found in the Fountain of Living waters(God) not in ourselves or things. God really wants us to be happy by enjoying Him as God. He wants us to trust Him.
Isaiah 40: 29-31
"He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary,they will walk and not be faint."
This is a beautiful verse and it has a promise , God is actually putting his faithfulness on the line. Unless were are prepared to trust God we will never experience the sweetness of His goodness and faithfulness. To be honest it is not always easy to trust God and this is because of the disappointments and problems we face in life. However this verse gives us a glimpse that God is interested in our lives and even in our weaknesses and disappointments .
The amazing thing about this chapter is that in the preceding verses God gives us a synopsis of his nature & works to persuade us to really trust Him. It is like God's Résumé or CV. The great God of heaven is really interested in us. So he says:
Verse 12
"Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heaven ?Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?"
Verse 15
"Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket ; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust. "
Verse 17
"Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing."
Verse 28
"Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.He will not grow tired or weary,and his understanding no one can fathom."
Therefore He is big and mighty and is beyond our greatest imaginations. So go ahead and trust Him. However you might be asking this question : " What does it mean to trust God?"
Trusting God is : Committing yourself to Him, resting your hope on Him. Trust means; Fall at full length and lie upon the Rock, Cast yourself upon Jesus, Fall with your full weight on God. To illustrate it further , it is like falling on a queen bed knowing that it will receive you fully and that it won't let go. God doesn't just want us to hold his hand but he wants us to rest on Him with all our weight. There is a great assurance in trusting God and it is that God will never drop us.
By Camagu Potelwa
