"Trust Like a Child"

"Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever." (Psalms 131:3)

  As for the promise spoken by Jesus in the closing Scripture, I hope each and everyone of us have accepted that promise to be ours, because I believe that it was intended to be for anyone that puts their faith in Christ Jesus as the Captain of their soul. We must consider God's word to be meant for us, individually and personally. Let's take this simple little verse, as an example; anyone that might think, "Israel," does not include them, they are making a grave mistake. Paul clearly states otherwise, saying, "And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jew only, but also of the Gentiles? As he saith also in Hosea, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved." (Romans 9:23-25) We are the "beloved" of God, there is a grafting in, as we are all the children of Abraham, each and everyone of us that are children of God; as we are all children of the promise! Do you see the difference? A child that believes what they have been promised, is a child that has hope in what they are going to get. Growing up as a child, I was put through many disappointing moments of being let down. Promised this and that, while experiencing something altogether different. "It will be different tomorrow, you'll see," turned out disappointing and the same as it was before. Life is full of disappointments; but with God, there is something that we can all take hold of and put all of our hope in, regardless of anything disappointing that this world might dish out; I have a home that is waiting somewhere else! This too was that point that Jesus was continually making to His disciples, that this was not His home. His desire to be used of the Father was founded in the place of the Father, where He longed to be, back where He belonged...

"This is what the LORD says: "Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the LORD. They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness, in an uninhabited salty land. "But blessed are those who trust in the LORD and have made the LORD their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along the riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit."" (Jeremiah 17:5-8) NLT