Trusting Too Much

Hi.  Peace.

 

We are in the 5^th week of Lent.  Have you begun to feel the transformation?  Reconciliation brings such peace.  It really is difficult to share in words.  Keep your focus on the change you have asked God to bring to your life.  There are still a couple of weeks left in the Season.  And, when you stand before the Risen Lord at Easter sunrise or during Easter services, be sure to thank Him for effecting another stage of repentance, of change in your life, your ways, and your thinking.

 

Today’s message from the Book of Daniel is about trusting in God.  As you have trusted that He does know your heart and will help you change, Susanna, an upright woman, trusted in God to deliver her from unjust charges brought about by evil men. 

 

Fr. Mark poses a penetrating thought:  “I risk being wrong if I trust too much.  But I risk living in torment if I do not trust enough.”

 

Suzanna did not have a choice.  She was helpless before her accusers and the court and the people.  Her only hope was in God’s love for her.  She surrendered to Him.  You and I, however, have a choice.  We can trust God and trust people.  Or, we can reserve just enough control of each situation to almost always ensure that we succeed, we win, we do not get hurt.

 

Would you cast your fate in a new direction were God to call you there?  Would you risk failure were you to hear His voice?  Would you walk through the valley of darkness without fear were He to lead you there?

 

People will fail you because people are imperfect.  God cannot fail you.

 

Please pray for:

-          Mike, Maureen, Amanda and Meghann and Lori and Amanda’s family and her friends,

-          Your family – each person, by name, asking God to help you bring reconciliation,

-          Our sick, our elderly, our children, the babies we are expecting, and all the helpless children of God,

-          Those who would kill for power, for good intentions, for convenience that they will come to know the sanctity of all human life,

-          Our church, our ministers, and all our lay who minister in the name of Jesus,

-          Our political leaders that they will allow God to help them lead rather than rely on their own humanity,

-          Our membership and each one’s special needs and intentions.

 

Father, our God, our Creator, our Beginning, our Goal, our End, we thank you for your myriad blessings.  We raise your holy Name above all names.  We proclaim You and pledge our allegiance to You first and before everything else.  We have only days left in this Season.  Use them, Father, to teach us to let go, i.e., to trust in You first and in our own meager abilities and imagination second.  Teach us to love unconditionally despite the cost.  We lay this deep need before you with all our other needs and intentions and ask you to hear and answer our prayers.  We do all this in the Name of your Son, Jesus.  Amen.

 

Pray!  Trust!  Expect!  Let the trust that is embodied in Bartimaeus be yours.

 

In Him and always in His love,

Lou