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What if?
'TRUST GOD FROM THE BOTTOM OF YOUR HEART; AND DON'T TRY TO FIGURE OUT EVERYTHING ON YOUR OWN...' PROVERBS 3:5
'What if?' is a question we have all asked ourselves millions of times. 'What if I don't pass my exams?' 'What if I don't get into the university I want to go to?' 'What if they stop fancying me and I end up alone?' There's not a problem with asking questions about life and the world around you. In fact lots of people in the Bible even asked God questions - sometimes really hard questions.
The issue is what's behind the question. Is your 'What if' question asked out of fear, doubt or worry rather than trust? What does it mean to trust? The dictionary says it's, 'To place somebody or something in the care of another person.' Wow, that is a tough challenge for some of us; especially if you've trusted someone in the past and they let you down. But with God things are different, 'God....will not lie...He does not change his mind...what He says He will do, He does. What He promises, He makes come true' (Numbers 23:19 NCV).
When we decide to trust God with our future and the decisions we're literally saying to Him 'God I am placing my life into Your care and I am choosing to trust that what ever challenges I face or decisions I have to make You will be watching over me and helping me to do what is best for the exciting life You want me to lead.'
Trusting God takes the massive weight of trying to figure everything out ourselves off our shoulders! So today when you start to think 'what if?' stop yourself and make a choice to trust.
written by Bob Gass
'TRUST GOD FROM THE BOTTOM OF YOUR HEART; AND DON'T TRY TO FIGURE OUT EVERYTHING ON YOUR OWN...' PROVERBS 3:5
'What if?' is a question we have all asked ourselves millions of times. 'What if I don't pass my exams?' 'What if I don't get into the university I want to go to?' 'What if they stop fancying me and I end up alone?' There's not a problem with asking questions about life and the world around you. In fact lots of people in the Bible even asked God questions - sometimes really hard questions.
The issue is what's behind the question. Is your 'What if' question asked out of fear, doubt or worry rather than trust? What does it mean to trust? The dictionary says it's, 'To place somebody or something in the care of another person.' Wow, that is a tough challenge for some of us; especially if you've trusted someone in the past and they let you down. But with God things are different, 'God....will not lie...He does not change his mind...what He says He will do, He does. What He promises, He makes come true' (Numbers 23:19 NCV).
When we decide to trust God with our future and the decisions we're literally saying to Him 'God I am placing my life into Your care and I am choosing to trust that what ever challenges I face or decisions I have to make You will be watching over me and helping me to do what is best for the exciting life You want me to lead.'
Trusting God takes the massive weight of trying to figure everything out ourselves off our shoulders! So today when you start to think 'what if?' stop yourself and make a choice to trust.
written by Bob Gass
