Trusting

 

I was thinking to myself on March 25, 2017 that I know that a lot of people struggle with wanting to have control of their lives.  I’ve especially seen this with people that have had a difficult past.  When they can’t handle what has happened in their past, often they will end up trying to control everything in their life.

I’ve been the type of person that wants to do everything on my own, when possible.  I’ve been better about my husband helping me with different things, but with others, not as much.  Sometimes I feel that it would be easier if I did a task by myself as then I wouldn’t have to explain what to do multiple times.  Yet other times I feel like I would be a burden on someone else if I asked another person for help.

I think in those times it’s important to ask what is really behind the need to not want to ask for help.  I think one of the answers to that is ‘not trusting.’  If you are hanging on a ledge, many feet above the ground, and a person comes to give you a hand and you aren’t willing to let them help you up, you need to ask why that is.  There could be many reasons for this, such as you think they are scary looking; that you have had trouble with them in the past; that you don’t trust them because they are a stranger; and so on.

Whatever the reason is, it is important that when you really need the help, to let someone help you.  I get that it can be scary to accept help when you don’t trust anyone in the world, but I want to tell you that there is someone out there that you can always trust, and that someone is God.

I can’t say that I have a perfect relationship with God, but something I’ve learned more recently is that it’s important to trust Him in everything in my life.  I originally tried to only trust God with one part of my life, such as letting Him find the perfect husband for me.  Later, as I continued to struggle in life, I’ve noticed that I’d mess it up as I tried to do as much as possible on my own.  When I finally started to give more control over to God, I started to feel more relaxed.

Things started to happen – I’d hear from friends more, they would want to chat or get together, our finances became better, and I started to believe in hope again.  All this time God was saying to me, “I have been waiting for you with open arms to let Me hold you up in this life.”  I would say back to Him, ‘I am so scared of being hurt and let down again.’  He replied, “I’ll never drop you as I have you in the palm of My hand.”

That’s when I really heard what He was saying to me.  That I could finally let go; that I could finally unclench my death-grip on my life.  I didn’t need to worry anymore as God was in control and I could sit back and enjoy the ride.  I know I may not always feel this content about giving my life up to God, but at least I know when I have those harder moments, He’ll always be there, waiting for me to come back to Him with His arms wide open.  All these things can be true for you, if you trust God and let Him help you with your life.

Patricia <3   :)

Isaiah 26:4   Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.

 

Here’s a good song about saying to our Lord that He most think we are strong for all that we are going through and you ask Him to forgive you if you say it’s more than you can handle, and since we are struggling, we ask for Our Lord to be strong enough for the both of us. 

  That sometimes we have to reach rock bottom, so that we can start looking up and reaching out to Him.  That even when we may become broken that He is our God and He is strong when we are weak and we call do all things through Our Lord who give us strength as we don’t have to be strong enough for everyone as He can be our strength.

 

“Strong Enough” by Matthew West

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_gCfA0Dmgg&list=PL3whQX319DaB37iB8NZpJe206iSdpe3kc&index=179